Afrikan Presence in Latin America by Dr Runoko Rashidi
When:
October 5, 2019 @ 7:30 pm
2019-10-05T19:30:00-07:00
2019-10-05T19:45:00-07:00
Where:
World Beat Center
2100 Park Blvd
San Diego 92101
WorldBeat Cultural Center would like to invite you to WorldBeat Cultural Center on October 5th to see Dr Runoko Rashidi‘s presentation on “The African Presence in Latin America”.
It’s time we acknowledge the stories that have not been told. Our communities need to know that African history began before the Atlantic Slave Trade. In fact Africans we’re sailing and trading long before that and there is a rich Olmec history that tells us they were in the Americas. Our communities also need to know that there still is a strong Black presence throughout Mexico, Central and South America. Dr. Runoko Rashidi will go over some of his most recent visits to the Black communities in Peru, Chile, Panama and Colombia as well as his research on Olmec history. Recently in June of 2019, Makeda Cheatom, our Executive Director along with Dr Runoko Rashidi were invited to take part in Lima’s Afro-Peruvian Culture Month guest lecture series.
The lecture is free and the program will begin at 7:30pm. Please see the attached
flyer for more details and if you have any questions, please feel free
to contact me at 619-230-1190 or email me back.
Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a main focus on
Global African Presence, which covers Africans outside of Africa
before and after enslavement. He is also the author or editor of
eighteen books which deal with the same topic. Dr. Runoko has visited
120 countries and spoken in sixty-five countries. In 2005, he was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by the Amen-Ra Theological
Seminary. He inaugurated the First All-India Dalit Writer’s Conference
in 1987, and he was the major keynote speaker at the International
Reunion of the African Family in 1999 and first keynote speaker at the
Frist Global Black Nationalities Conference in Osogbo, Nigeria in
2010. In December 2010, he was President and first speaker at the
Diaspora Forum at the FESMAN Conference. He is currently pursuing a
major work on the African presence in the museums of the world. His
ultimate goal in his life is the uplift of African people from all
over the world. He is the official Traveling Ambassador for Marcus
Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association and African
Communicates League.
“None of us are free until all of us are free”. – Makeda Cheatom
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WorldBeat Cultural Center Presents
The African Presence in Latin America by Dr Runoko Rashidi
October 5th, 7:30PM
Free
