Double Book Launch: Criticism of Canada's Mining Interest and Aid in Africa

Posted: January 14, 2016

Event Details

  • Thursday, January 21, 2016
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    Building: Gzowski College
    Room: The Gathering Space
    Cost: Free

Join OPIRG, Council of Canadians and the Student Association for International Development (SAID) for a DOUBLE book launch/reading followed by a short discussion on Canada's "aid" in Africa.    Texts by Yves Engler (Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation) and Paula Butler (Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa) both focus on the colonial nature of Canada's mining interest in Africa through enforced economic prescriptions. Mr. Engler concludes that there is a divide between what we are told about Canadian policy as a benevolent force where in reality, Canada and corporations aggressively support policies that undermine/impoverish the continent. Ms. Butler's novel helps to connect these ideas with Canada's history of resource ownership and past racial/spiritual oppression of Indigenous peoples in order to build the nation we have today.

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eugeniaochoa@trentu.ca

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