The talk will be an analysis of the choice facing African states today - of whether to resist attempts by the former colonial powers and their successors to maintain control of African land, labour and natural resources, or whether they will attempt to forge a genuinely independent path along the lines mapped out by Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah was the leader of the independence movement which led to Ghana becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to achieve its independence from colonialism in 1957. His book Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism was a detailed analysis of the means by which the western world were attempting to maintain economic colonialism of newly independent countries - and the means by which such attempts could be thwarted. His radicalism led to the CIA sponsoring a coup against him the following decade, but not before he had established both the Organisation of African Unity (the predecessor of today's African Union) and the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (the AAPRP), a more grassroots attempt to resist neocolonialism. The AAPRP was led by Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael), the man who originated the term 'Black Power' in the US, and Bob Brown worked closely with Toure for the rest of his life.

This talk, then, is a rare opportunity to hear an analysis of neocolonialism today from a man who has been an active participant in the world's major struggles against it, and who has worked with almost every major figure in the African liberation movement in both Africa and North America. Not to be missed!