Lecture

Lusaka, Liberation Movements and the Struggle for black majority rule in Southern Africa

Clarence Chongo (University of Lusaka)

April 19, 2024, 16h00 (GMT+1)

Online event

Following on from the series The Weft of Memory: dates to count, organised by the coordinators of the thematic line Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues, which ran throughout 2023, a new series begins now.

A series of 4 online lectures The Weft of Memory: spaces to recount dedicated to 4 African cities where the struggles for African independences and the 25 April 1974 were also forged.

This second lecture is dedicated to Lusaka (Zambia) and its relevance to the circulation of ideas and people in the context of African liberation movements against European, and Portuguese colonialism in particular.

The lecture will be held in English.


Moderator: Maria Paula Meneses (CES)


Bio note 

Clarence Chongo is a Professor at the University of Lusaka in Zambia, where he is a member of the Department of Historical and Archaeological Studies. At the centre of his research interests are the transnational histories of southern African liberation movements, a topic he developed in his doctoral thesis entitled Decolonizing Southern Africa: a history of Zambia's role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle 1964-1979  (2015).

Related to this lecture’s theme is the publication “A Good Measure of Sacrifice: Aspects of Zambia's Contribution to the Liberation Wars in Southern Africa”, 1964-1975, Zambia Social Science Journal 6, 1 (2019)

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