The Auburn Avenue Research Library, in collaboration with Offshoot Journal and the Atlanta Radical Book Fair, will host “From One Generation to the Next: Modibo Kadalie and William C. Anderson in Conversation.”
This community discussion will feature writer William C. Anderson, co-author of As Black as Resistance and author of the forthcoming The Nation on No Map and scholar-activist Modibo Kadalie, author of Pan-African Social Ecology, and the forthcoming book, Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom. The authors will discuss their upcoming book projects as well as their analyses of recent world events, emphasizing the role of direct democracy and self-organization in past, present, and future freedom movements.
Modibo Kadalie is a lifelong scholar-activist with over 60 years of experience in the civil rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanist movements. In the 1970s he was a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the African Liberation Support Committee. He is also the founding convener of the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology in Midway, Georgia.
William C. Anderson is an independent writer. His work has been published by the Guardian, MTV, and the British Journal of Photography, among others. He also provides creative direction as a producer of the Black Autonomy Podcast. His writings have been included in the anthologies, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Haymarket 2016) and No Selves to Defend (Mariame Kaba 2014).