An evening of conversation with K.Jean de Dieu Zabre and George Shire, reflecting on the histories and futures of liberation struggles in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe.
K.Jean de Dieu Zabre is a Mossi Pan-Afrikan Action-Researcher, President of the Association Opened World, and member of the Pan-Afrikan Reparatory Justice Critical Class Legal Action Alliance. He is also a member of the Toega Internationalist Solidarity Centre Management Committee in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, supporting community regeneration efforts through training, education, and research. He has a background in humanitarian coordination addressing the critical displacement of communities due to regional destabilisation in Burkina Faso.
George Shire is a veteran of the Zimbabwe liberation war, a cultural theorist and academic, a DJ and jazz saxophone enthusiast.
He is a member of the ‘Another Road Map: Africa Cluster in Art Education’ and serves on the editorial boards of ‘Ellipses’ - a journal of creative practice (www.ellipses.org.za); and ‘dark matter’ (www.darkmatter101.org) an online journal of culture & politics. He has previously worked at Central Saint Martin, UAL; at the Open University; and Birkbeck College.
He is engaged with questions of knowledge, power and difference from the ‘global south’, with decolonisation from a panafrican ‘Bandungist’ black radical tradition standpoint, and with tracking the histories of art education and emerging liberation studies in Southern Africa’.