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609: Film Screening: Peter Abrahams: A Fascinating Journey

5:15 PM–6:30 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 (US - Central)

Hyatt Regency - Grand Suite 5

Session Information

Description: This documentary tells the story of the novelist, journalist, and political activist Peter Abrahams and his emergence from the slums of Johannesburg to his central place in Pan-African and Third World liberation circles in London and Paris and his adopted homeland of Jamaica. Following the screening is a discussion with the film’s director, the veteran Radio Jamaica senior journalist Earl Moxam, also a friend and colleague of Abrahams’s, will be in attendance as discussant.

Presider

Jason Frydman, Brooklyn C, City U of New York

Respondent

Earl Moxam, Radio Jamaica

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