TransAfrica is a research, education, and advocacy center dedicated to global justice for the African World. A center for activism focusing on conditions in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America and other parts of the African Diaspora, TransAfrica sponsors seminars, community awareness projects and training programs. These activities help promote alternative perspectives on the economic, political, and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy. TransAfrica disseminates information on issues of concern to the African World with various events in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and beyond. These include our Cabral/Truth Circle, African World Visions Film Series, Viewpoint Lecture Series, Readers’ Corner and Writers’ Corner.
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 02:00PM KEN SIBANDA reads from his book The Return to Gibraltar—Hosted by Sankofa and sponsored by TransAfrica
Date: June 9, 2012, 2:00 PM
Venue: Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 07:00PM 2012 DC Caribbean Filmfest JUNE 1-4, 2012
Presented by Caribbean Association of World Bank and IMF Staff (CAWI), Caribbean Professional Network (CPN), Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS), TransAfrica, and AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
in Celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 02:30PM The next regular meeting of TransAfrica’s Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers’ Corner will be held on Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:30 to 4:30 PM, featuring African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions, edited by Firoze Manji, Sokari Ekine (2011, Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press). NOTE VENUE CHANGE.
Venue: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, Room 221, Washington, DC 20001-4531, (Nearest Metro Station: Gallery Place on the Red Line).
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 07:00PM Join us at BloomBars, 3222 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC on May 15, 2012 at 7pm.
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006, 52 min), by Robin Shuffield – examines the story of African leader, Thomas Sankara, who initiated revolutionary changes in Burkina Faso.
Sankara came to power in Burkina Faso, in 1983, and immediately set the country on the most ambitious program for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent. He even changed the name of the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, ‘Land of Upright Men.’
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 06:30PM TransAfrica, Busboys and Poets, and Teaching for Change present Helon Habila discussing and signing his new novel:
Oil on Water
April 30, 2012, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street (14 & V), NW, Washington, DC