FREE VIRTUAL EVENT of the Glasgow University (22 October 2020) - Martin Plaut on Dr Abdurahman and Anti-Racism in South Africa - A Book Discussion

Title of event:

Martin Plaut on Dr Abdurahman and Anti-Racism in South Africa - A Book Discussion

Speaker:

Martin Plaut (former Chief Correspondent, BBC World Service, Africa, Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Commonwealth Studies), Prof Alison Phipps

Date & Time:

Thursday 22 October 2020

14:00 - 15:30 

Platform:

Zoom

 

Cost:

Free

Background info:

"As President of the African Political (later People's) Organisation (1905-1940) Abdullah Abdurahman was a leading political voice among South Africa's 'coloured' community and a tireless campaigner against segregation. Though civil, social and political equality was not achieved in his lifetime, he made an important contribution to the case against white supremacism, and for improvements in education, the welfare of the Cape poor, and public health. A medical graduate of Glasgow University (MB CM 1893) he ran a successful multi-racial practice in Cape Town. www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH10083&type=P

 

This conversation marks this important figure in the history of University of Glasgow and also the launch of a new book on Dr Abdurahman by Martin Plaut, a journalist specialising in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, and former Africa Editor for BBC World Service News."

For more information & to register:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/listings/index.html/event/11840