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Speakers
Bakary
Tandia
Bakary is a human rights activist from Mauritania. He has been
especially active on the issue of slavery in Mauritania and the
lack of southern representation in the Mauritanian government.
He also raises concerns around land expropriation, physical abuse
against Africans, and forced exile of Africans and others who
oppose President Taya's government. He was the key exile figure
who worked to free imprisoned antislavery leader Boubacar Messaoud.
Bakary was active lobbying UN missions, NGO's, the US State Department
and other European countries to apply pressure to the Mauritanian
government to release Boubacar. He played a major role at the
World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa in August/September
2001. It was his intervention at a plenary session that challenged
the South Africans present to speak out against slavery on the
African continent. Winnie Mandela and Dennis Brutus immediately
spoke out on the issue. Bakary is an impressive and clear speaker.
Nozipo Glenn
Nozipo is a member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South
Africa). She has been active in South African politics since she
was 16 years old. Nonzero was in exile in Dayton, Ohio, for 23
years. In 1995, she visited South Africa for the first time in
23 years. Nozipo is a regular on the Africa Peace Tour not because
she likes the physical difficulties of the tour, but because she
is the one person that audiences consistently request to visit
a second time. She speaks to people in clear, unambiguous language,
and seems to challenge people to understand African issues. In
this Tour she will raise the issue of land and urge audiences
to understand what it means to have your land taken by people
and forces from outside the continent. She has continuously noted
that landlessness, and the issue of historically stolen lands,
and attempts by local people to recover their land drives much
of the violence in Africa, from Zimbabwe and South Africa to Kenya.
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