In this presentation, Visiting Scholar Giulia Bonacci discusses the organisational forms and political strategies that allowed people to repatriate from Jamaica directly to Ethiopia between the years 1968-1981.

Wednesday, June 8, 2005
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
History Department Conference Room
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Giulia Bonacci is a Visiting Scholar from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; she is currently working  in the UCLA History Department.

Abstract:

The concern and involvement of African descent population in Ethiopia goes back as far as the late 19th century. However, in the 1940s, Emperor Haile Selassie I granted land to the ‘Black people of the West'. Following this invitation, several hundred people settled on the outskirts of a southern Ethiopian town, Shashemene. This presentation will discuss the organisational forms and political strategies that allowed people to repatriate from Jamaica directly to Ethiopia between the years 1968-1981.

Cost : Free and open to the public; parking is available for $7.

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Sponsor(s): Department of History