KILOMBO 2013 Conference on Africa

KILOMBO 2013 Conference on Africa, Africans and Social Justice

The Kilombo Centre for Citizens' Rights and Conflict Resolution, Peki, Ghana is organizing the 2nd Kilombo Conference on Africa, Africans and social Justice. The conference will take place in Peki, Ghana from the Friday 27/09/2013 to Sunday 29/09/2013 and is aimed at bringing together a large and representative gathering of Africans and people of African descent to discuss issues bothering on Africa, Africans and social Justice. Kilombo hopes among other things, to raise a core of dedicated Africans who will be adequately armed through a series of well tailored activities which will awaken and or strengthen their consciousness about the continent of Africa and the need for us all together as African, regardless of location, protect through the building of a truly liberated continent.

Invited Speakers to this year’s conference include, Wangui Munyi-Vanselow (Germany/Kenya), Tiperu Wambui Aliga (Belgium), Ambrose Nzeyimana (Rwanda/UK), Malele Dodia Phiri (Kilombo, Zambia), G-Gloria Obuo Obuobie (Ghana), Filomeno Francisco Lopes (Angola), Bob Brown (USA), Kali Akuno (USA), Amma Fosuah Poku (UK/Ghana), Antwi Sarpong Hammohd (Ghana) Ohene Nana Quame Adjei (Ghana) Ben Adu (Ghana), Dede Amanor Wilks (Ghana) ex-Bdr Clement Kporgbe Atitsogbui (Ghana), Kwesi Pratt Jnr (Ghana), Shmuel Ja 'Mba Abm (Ghana), Firoze Manji (Senegal), Prof Bill Bowring (UK), Alnoor Ladha (USA), Honourable Dr Saka (Ghana), Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah (Ghana), Ewurama Andoh (Ghana), Granfadaa Ayitomeka (Ghana), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

Explo Nani-Kofi

ABOUT KILOMBO CENTRE FOR CITIZENS’ RIGHTS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Kilombo is a word that comes from the Kimbundu language of the Angolan people. We chose this word because as Pan-Africanist, we looked for a word that comes from an indigenous African language and is a word for resistance. This word means launching pad for battle or settlement (fortress) of resistance.

Kilombo (www.kilomboeducation.org) is an education and research project, which aims at facilitating the process of building institutions to provide capacity for grass root and pro-people forces to develop an alternative to the unfair social and economic arrangement globally and secure a just relationship between Africa and Africans with the rest of the world. Our concept is, therefore, to approach our work as part of the global justice movement and not see Africa and Africans as an isolated group which can miraculously or mysteriously achieve justice without linking and working with other people. Within Africa, as well, we relate with all the activities that take place today and see how we can influence them towards this goal and not operate or approach what we do in abstract.

We have been developing the Kilombo Centre for Citizens’ Right and Conflict resolution (formerly Kilombo Centre for Civil Society and African Self-Determination) since 2009, as a coordinating centre for our activities globally with a centre office, community library and a training centre in Peki, Ghana. This approach is also to be innovative in having a centre of that type in Africa which not capital city centred and relates to the society at the grass roots. The centre is run by a Director who is Explo Nani-Kofi with the help of volunteers/supporters.

The centre maintains contacts with a number of campaigns and community based organizations. Through these community based organizations and campaigns the project carries out public activities. As the centre does not have any organized funding or support from funders yet, and operates as an activist backed project so far, we take advantage of activities by various campaigns such as peace, anti-war, anti-austerity, anti-globalisation, women’s interest, youth affairs, climate change, tax justice, African self-determination, African unity, anti-racist etc and participate in them to network with others.

To learn more about the KILOMBO 2013 Conference on Africa, Africans and Social Justice, kindly contact:

Explo Nani Kofi

Phone Contact: 00233241498912.

Email : kilombo.education@gmail.com Website: www.kilomboeducation.org