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Friday: The Legacy of Marxism-Leninism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Africa Fri 10 November 2017 18:00 – 20:00 GMT 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HT Organised by Africa Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-legacy-of-marxism-lennism-and-the-1917-bolshevik-revolution-in-africa-a-view-from-south-africa-tickets-27761750142?ref=eios&aff=eios Past and present African revolutionaries continue to be inspired by Marxism-Leninism as well as ideas from the Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Revolutionary thinkers, such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Thomas Sankara (Africa’s “Che” Guevara) and Amilcar Cabral, just to name a few, all drew inspiration from the Bolshevik Revolution and applied Marxist-Leninism to their respective locals and situations. The situation has not changed as in today's Africa, many political parties, workers, scholars, activists, the unemployed, peasants, students as well as nationalist and revolutionary movements draw from Marxist-Leninist ideas of socio-justice, galvanized by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Dr Floyd Shivambu, Deputy Leader of the Economic Freedom Party in South Africa will reflect on the legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as well as Marxism-Leninism, in Africa and in South Africa, in particular. & Thu, 9 November, 17:00-19:00, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HT Peter Goodwin on "The Bolshevik Revolution and Media Studies": https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-goodwin-westminster-the-bolshevik-revolution-and-media-studies-tickets-37833994496 On the centenary of the October Revolution Peter Goodwin suggests that the Bolsheviks still have some things to teach contemporary media studies about the dynamics of political communication. Peter Goodwin is a principal research fellow in CAMRI. He has worked at the University of Westminster for more than twenty years, where he has been amongst other things Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication and Faculty Research Director for Media, Arts and Design. He pas published on media policy and the political economy of the media.