He followed that in 2001 with “What’s Next?,” a political monograph in response to Sept. Amid it all, there’s the documentary crew that has been filming the author for the last few months. This morning’s formal portion of the program is brief enough to allow Mosley, outfitted head to toe in black, time to pose for pictures and to talk to some of the fans who’ve stopped by for a look: There’s an African American woman who wants to get him involved in a scholarship program another would like him to visit with her book group a black man plays one of Mosley’s audio books loudly on his boombox. As they came together, it made a city that was impossible to know.’ Most of those stories haven’t been told.” As people came here, they brought another structure. My father said: ‘Los Angeles already had a structure. “So all of this is really like coming home. Then at 176th and Central until I was 12,” he tells the crowd, a sharp wind tugging at his crowning black fedora. A block, it so happens, just around the corner from where he grew up. Hahn - a smattering of neighborhood folk and even his mother, Ella, to celebrate the selection of his latest Rawlins book, “Little Scarlet,” as L.A.'s choice for the One Book One City reading program on this quiet block in Watts. “Had the Soviet Union succeeded there, Africans might have also lost their voice or even life,” she says.So it’s more than fitting that Mosley should be standing before a small gathering of press, city officials - including Mayor James K. She highlights that the Soviet Union’s policies in Africa, for instance in Angola, never viewed the local population as equals and simply sought to expand the Russian empire. Russia has tried to make these people, as well as the Crimean Tatars and the Ukrainians during the Soviet times, lose their own voice by presenting them to the world as Russians, according to Stiazhkina. Olena Stiazhkina, a Ukrainian historian and writer, explains that Russia has been engaging in the “ethnocide” of many of non-Russian ethnicities in Russia, such as the people of Buryatia and Dagestan, by recruiting and deploying them disproportionately to go to war in Ukraine. He underlined that many still do not realize that Russia has been colonizing other countries, such as in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, for centuries. Many throughout the world “tend to think of colonialism as the European expansionism in the non-European world,” failing to see that other forms of colonialism have also existed, he says Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, addressed the audience digitally. She says that it was not easy making people understand that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to destroy Ukraine and throw its people out of their homes. “Lopez Obrador and some of his political party members are standing with Russia, however,” Cacho adds. “The toxic imperial nostalgia of the populist totalitarian leaders is hurting everyone,” she explains, citing the UN statistics about the number of people in Ukraine in need of help as a result of the Russian invasion, with 6.6 million internally displaced people and 6.9 million others abroad. Many Mexicans could relate to what Ukraine is going through, according to Cacho. Noble laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mexican journalist Lydia María Cacho, UK lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, as well as Yuval Harari and Margaret Atwood, joined in a series of discussions on the ongoing war.Ĭacho, currently living in Spain after a backlash against her investigative work in Mexico, tells Efe that she is amazed by the Ukrainian society for being able to maintain the freedom of expression and hold events like the book forum amid the Russian attempt to deny its independent existence.Īs a Mexican, Cacho says that she understands what it is like to suffer the aggression from a large neighboring country, which seeks to make them “slaves.” Today, it is held in the bomb shelter of the Ukrainian Catholic University in the western city of Lviv, with only 100 visitors allowed in for safety reasons. The Book Forum used to attract hundreds of publishing companies from the region and tens of thousands of visitors. ![]() Lviv, Ukraine, Oct 9 (EFE).- Ukrainian and international writers have come together, either virtually or in person, at the Lviv Book Forum to touch on the imperialist nature of the Russian invasion of its neighbor.
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