Wandsworth Stop the War Monthly Meeting
Monday 18 February 2013 6.30pm

Mali and the 'war against terror'
Britain and the new scramble for Africa
Speaker Dr Hakim Adi
All welcome

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN
Nearest transport: Rail: Clapham Junction Station (2 mins walk to BAC). Buses: 345, 77, 87, 156 and G1 stop on Lavender Hill outside BAC.

Dr Hakim Adi - historian, activist, lecturer - Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Africa, The African Diaspora in Modern Britain, Pan-Africanism. Dr Adi has done many radio and TV interviews and contributed to many publications. Recent books published: Belonging in Europe – The African Diaspora and Work (London: Routledge, 2010) Joint editor with C. Bressey, Pan-African History – Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora from 1787 (London/New York: Routledge, 2003) Joint author with M. Sherwood, West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1998).

As millions around the world predicted, the war on terror has caused catastrophe from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Iraq and the Middle East to Libya, Somalia and beyond. Are we facing unending war? Is the invasion of Mali to protect civilians or is it another war for resources? Is Mali another Afghanistan? Can the West be accused of hypocrisy given its approach to Mali as apposed to its policy on Syria? What do the US, Britain and France hope to achieve with their policies of war and military intervention?