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:
- PhD, is a Kenyan, now resident in Québec. He has more than 40 years’ experience in international development, health and human rights. He is the publisher of Daraja Press and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the recipient of the 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin, Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford (2001-2016) and, and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press / Fahamu Books (2000-2012).
- 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
卡尔顿大学教授；达雅桥出版社社长，加拿大。他来自肯尼亚，拥有超过40年的国际发展、卫生政策以及社会和文化转型领域的经验。他是非洲著名《潘巴祖卡新闻》和《潘巴祖卡出版社》的创始人兼前总编辑。