The recent death of Caribbean poet/politician Aimé Cesaire, and French state funeral with the presence of Sarkozy (although Cesaire had refused to meet him while still alive) calls for the inclusion of the concept of négritude in our discussion of Rastafarian movement.
Sometimes you wish you would like something even before you see it…(but then you don’t).
When we heard about the new comic miniseries Volto Nascosto, set in Eritrea/Ethiopia during Italian colonialism, we were so excited, the next day we ran to Madda’s to take a look at past issues. Well, summarizing: it’s really an (old) old-school comic, (yawn).
It’s April and we finished our first video of the trip, “Rastafarians presence in Ethiopia”, about the conference we went to in November and the DVD is now available (at the moment we have just 7 copies)!
We would like to thank: Barabba for the camera and the white DVDs, Miche for the microphone and the DVD serigraphy, Simo for the tripod, Forrow and Carlitos for coming to the presentation and finally Madda for the Glue!
We presented our video last wednesday, during Luca Queirolo Palmas‘ Sociology of Migration course called “Derive e approdi”, held in the University of Genoa, faculty of Education Sciences.
Yesterday we went to the Genoese Buridda squat to listen to the conference by David Hilliard, founding member and former Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. He described the birth of the BPP from the personal engagement of just a few young activists. From his point of view, the key factor for the success of the BPP was their anchorage in the community, the fact they provided services like free health care and “free breakfast program” for children. In his opinion, if the BPP had only consisted in an armed party, it would have never survived the repression of the US government.
