With six meetings and a celebration, the AfroSouth Chair takes place during the months of August, September and October, led by teachers from the University of Cauca, CESMAG Pasto and the Cooperative University of Colombia.

 

The University of Cauca, through the Center for Ethnic Memories, together with CESMAG Pasto and the Cooperative University of Colombia, Pasto campus, hold the AfroSouth Chair during the months of August, September and October. The conference, which has the participation of speakers from the African diaspora in Latin America, is proposed as a meeting of experiences and dialogue of knowledge about territorial work in ethno-education, Afro-Colombian chair and anti-racist education.

 

"In this experience we have met various work groups, research groups, teachers, teachers, leaders and women leaders who have come and have been working for years to make ethnoeducation a project with territorial descent," said José Antonio Caicedo Ortiz, teacher from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidad del Cauca.

 

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In this way, during the month of August the conference held on Thursday the 6th a first discussion called "Voices of Afro-Colombian women against racism" and for Thursday the 27th of the same month the program "The racist face of the Colombian conflict and the construction of the truth”.

 

"It is a space created by the University of Cauca through the Center for Ethnic Memories, the CESMAG University of Pasto and the Cooperative University of Colombia Pasto campus, designed for us to dialogue and reflect on the roles, problems and trajectories that they go through the populations of that rich and complex African diaspora in Colombia”, added Martha Isabel Rosas, professor at CESMAG Pasto

 

 

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The Afro Sur Chair consists of six virtual meetings that will conclude with the commemoration of the birth of the teacher Manuel Zapata Olivella through a meeting of writers and poets who from different experiences will tell their visions, memories and forgetfulness in front of this great celebration.

 

“This is how it corresponds to a great political commitment of visibility and dignity that invites us to think, from our roles and from our places, how we can develop anti-racist actions that we need so much at the present time. We invite everyone to this space created from the south, that south that also exists”, pointed out the teacher Martha Isabel Rosas.

 

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Ethnic Memories Center

Email: memoriasetnicas@unicauca.edu.c