Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, addressing an African American History Month forum in Detroit on February 28, 2009. (Photo: Cheryl LaBash)
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Next week on Wednesday September 23, 2009 at 7:00 PM Nyumburu will be hosting a Free Lecture Featuring Detroit Based Journalist and Activist: Abayomi Azikiwe! Abayomi Azikiwe is an extremely dynamic, knowledgeable and engaging public speaker. Please come out to this important event next Wednesday September 23rd at 7:00 PM. Abayomi Azikiwe was recently interviewed on our UNITV radio station discussing the topic of his upcoming lecture at Nyumburu, The World Economic Crisis and Its Social Impact: From Africa to the Americas. You can listen to that interview by clicking here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/UNITV-Radio . We hope to see you all next Wednesday September 23 at 7:00 PM at the Nyumburu Cultural Center (http://www.nyumburu.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Event Details
The World Economic Crisis and Its Social Impact: From Africa to the Americas
Nyumburu Lecture Featuring Journalist and Activist: Abayomi Azikiwe
Date: September 23, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
For More Information Contact Info: [email protected]/ 301.314.8439
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor and founder of the Pan-African News Wire, will be giving a lecture on The World Economic Crisis and Its Social Impact: From Africa to the Americas." at the Nyumburu Cultural Center on September 23rd 2009. The Nyumburu Cultural Center is located on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. This lecture is free to the public.
Azikiwe is an activist with a number of organizations including the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs, the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice, he is the board chair of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights and a co-founder of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality.
Azikiwe has lectured at a number of universities, community centers and churches in the United States and Canada. He has traveled and conducted field research in South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho. He often appears as a guest commentator on various radio and television programs in the United States and abroad.
Azikiwe has appeared in documentary films, television and radio programs produced in Italy, Canada, France, Venezuela and the United States.
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