International Webinar Premiere of the Award-Winning short film:
CUBA IN AFRICA
with producer and director
Negash Abdurahman
Sunday, Nov. 7th - Time 4:00 pm Eastern/1:00 pm Pacific
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
,Public spokesperson, Canadian Network on Cuba; Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Author of forthcoming Africa's Children Return! Cuba, Africa and Apartheid's End