CUBA IN AFRICA – International Film Premiere & Webinar, Nov. 7

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021 AT 4 PM EST
CUBA IN AFRICA – International Film Premiere & Webinar
Online Event

The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses – who GAVE EVERYTHING to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa.

FEATURING SPEAKERS:
Negash Abdurahman, Ethiopian-American filmmaker and educational technology consultant. Founder of RI Systems Inc. His acclaimed, award-winning film Cuba in Africa was years in the making, overcoming many obstacles, to tell the truth (mostly untold in the US) of Cuba’s revolutionary internationalist mission from 1976-1991 that was decisive in winning the sovereignty of Angola, the independence of Namibia, and securing the unraveling and defeat of apartheid South Africa.

Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba’s Ambassador to the United States

Piero Gleijeses, Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University; Author, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976 (winner, 2002

Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations); Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991.

Isaac Saney, Co-chair & national-spokesperson, Canadian Network on Cuba; Cuba specialist, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Author of the forthcoming Africa’s Children Return! Cuba, Africa and Apartheid’s End

Sponsored by: Organizing Committee, International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations (us-cubanormalization.org)
Saving Lives Campaign (savinglivescampaign.org)
New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition (cubasinynjcoalition.org)
Canadian Network On Cuba (canadiannetworkoncuba.ca)
National Network On Cuba (http://nnoc.info)
Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec – Cuba (https://www.facebook.com/TCSQC)