PROMOTING CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH ADVOCACY INTERNATIONALLY
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
SMELLING & TASTING BLACK HISTORY
"We could imagine World History as a carpet into which are woven all colours of the spectrum. We have to ensure that there is no bias, by including the (once conspicuously excluded) red, brown, black and blue threads of the past."Roi Kwabena
Dr. Roi Ankhkara Kwabena was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He is a cultural anthropologist who has worked with all age ranges in Europe, Africa, Latin-America and the Caribbean for over thirty years.
His positive cultural advocacy has ensured his suitability for a variety of specialist projects addressing wide ranging issues such as functional and Cultural literacy, therapeutic harvesting of Memories by elders and young people (including cross generational dialogue) Anti-Racism, Community Cohesion, Social Inclusion, Cultural Diversity , redefining the Heritages of Indigenous peoples plus confidence building for prisoners, excluded and traumatized students, Refugees, etc.
Dr Kwabena is renown for using critical analysis to examine the historical roots of racism and to assess the direct relevance this has on our lives today.
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