Name: Firoze Manji
Position: Director of Pan African Baraza
Organisation: ThoughtWorks
Publisher, Daraja Press
2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
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Brief Profile:
- Kenyan
- Director of the Pan-African Baraza, an initiative of ThoughtWorks (www.thoughtworks.com)
- Founder and former editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News (2000-2012) and Pambazuka Press / Fahamu Books (2008-2012)
- Founder and former executive director (1997-2010) of Fahamu – Networks for Social Justice
- Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford
- Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies
- Board member of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- Member of the editorial board of AwaaZ Magazine (http://www.awaazmagazine.com/)
- Co-editor of Groundings, a publication of the Walter Rodney Foundation
- Member of International Editorial Review Board of Global Critical Caribbean Thought
- Member of the Advisory Board of the African Documentary Film Fund (www.adff.org)
- Having published widely and recent publications include African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (with Sokari Ekine) 2011)
- Cco-editor (with Bill Fletcher Jr) of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (2013)
- Publisher of Daraja Press, whose recent publications include: Recent Political Developments in West Africa: Edited by Ndongo Samba Sylla; Wither the Franc Zone in Africa? Edited by Demba Moussa Dembele and Carlos Cardoso; Cozinhar Um Continente: A Extração Destrutiva e a Crise Climática na África: by Nnimmo Bassey; Stop the Continent Grab and the REDD-ification of Africa by Nnimmo Bassey and the No REDD in Africa Network; and The great climate robbery: How the food system drives climate change and what we can do about it by GRAIN.org
- Formerly working as Head of CODESRIA’s Centre for Documentation, Information and Communication, Africa Director for Amnesty International, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation UK, Regional Health Representative for IDRC
- Holding a PhD and MSc from the University of London and BDS from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne