"Heirs and Pioneers: Jamaican Repatriation to Ethiopia, 1968-1981"
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 08, 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.
For more information please contact
UCLA History Department Tel: 310-825-4601
alpers@history.ucla.edu
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/
Sponsor(s): Department of History
