Yves Engler: Canada in Africa, 300 years of aid and exploitation

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

You are cordially invited to join Canadian author and activist Yves Engler as he discusses his just released critical overview of Canadian policy towards the African continent, entitled Canada in Africa: 300 years of aid and exploitation. Q&A to follow Mr. Engler's presentation.

Based on an exhaustive examination of the public record as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa documents Canadian involvement in the trans-atlantic slave trade, the "scramble for Africa", the missionary movement, and European colonialism, as well as Ottawa's opposition to anti-colonial struggles and its promotion of neo-liberal economic prescriptions that have benefitted Canadian mining companies who have extracted much of the continent's mineral resources and are often bitterly resisted by local communities.

Engler sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo, as well as how Canada's indifference to climate change means a death sentence to ever-growing numbers of Africans.

"This should be required reading for every human with a conscience and all those that desire to join the forces fighting for change." - Nnimmo Bassey, winner of the Right Livelihood Award ("alternative to Nobel Prize") and author of To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa.

Admission is free. Donations to assist the book tour are welcomed and gratefully appreciated.

This event is sponsored by: Victoria Peace Coalition; Social Justice Studies Program, University of Victoria; Council of Canadians, Victoria Chapter; Social and Environmental Alliance; Friends of Western Sahara; Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation; Central American Support Committee (CASC); Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Victoria; Victoria Friends of Cuba; Mining Justice Action Committee (MJAC); and the African Awareness Committee.

Yves Engler is the author of eight books: Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation (2015), The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy (2012), Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt (2012), Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism On the Road to Economic, Social and Environmental Decay (2011) with Bianca Mugyenyi, Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid (2010), Black Book on Canadian Foreign Policy (2009), Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority (2005) with Anthony Fenton, Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical (2005).

For more details on Mr. Engler's work, please visit http://www.yvesengler.com     

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