Revolution Dawn: Race and Anti-imperial Struggles for Liberation within our Lifetimes

Winter 2025 Africa Center & Global Studies Colloquium Series: Global Uprising

Ndindi Kitonga will discuss Black abolitionisms & Black radical internalisms tracing their histories & connections to current anti-imperialist struggles, e.g., the movement for a Free Palestine amid the US-enabled genocide in Gaza. She'll highlight how feminists, abolitionists, labor organizers, student groups, housing justice advocates, queer collectives, and others are linking local struggles to U.S. imperialism with calls like “No pride in genocide,” “Homes not bombs,” & “Palestine is a feminist issue.”

The talk will further examine the philosophical and organizing contradictions that Black abolitionists face in striving for a society free of all systems of domination.

Lunch will be served in SSMS 2001 at 12:00 p.m.

Dr. Ndindi Kitonga, a Kenyan American educator and community organizer, a houseless rights advocate and co-founder of Angeles Workshop School, a democratic micro-school in LA. An Ethnic Studies faculty member at CSULB, Kitonga teaches on Black abolitionisms, critical pedagogy, and anti-colonial education. In 2020, Ndindi co-created a mutual aid network to address COVID exacerbated disparities in her community, where the unhoused population is predominantly Black and Latine.