Lord Paul Boateng, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and British High Commissioner to South Africa, will speak on the challenges and opportunities for democracy in North and sub-Saharan Africa as part of Bristol’s Afika Eye film festival.
In an event co-hosted by Afrika Eye and Bristol Festival of Ideas, Paul Boateng, pictured, will give an inspiring talk and Q&A session entitled Africa Rising . . . Challenges and opportunities facing North and sub-Saharan Africa. It will expand on the festival’s core themes of democracy, dictatorship and revolution in Africa.
Paul Boateng, who was MP for Brent South between 1987 and 2005 and the UK’s first black cabinet minister, said: “This exciting festival provides a welcome opportunity to focus on the challenges and opportunities that Africa presents at this critical time.”
His talk takes place at Watershed, Bristol, on Saturday, October 29, at 7pm – between screenings of An African Election, a documentary about Ghana’s 2008 election, and Bristol-based exiled Zimbabwean filmmaker Simon Bright’s Robert Mugabe… What Happened? – the fascinating story of a man who built a country and then destroyed it.
A full interview with Simon, founder of the Afrika Eye festival, will appear on Bristol Business News next week along with the full festival programme. For further details go to http://afrikaeye2010.blogspot.com/p/programme.html
Bristol Business News is proud to be a media partner and supporter of Afrika Eye.
