Firoze Manji is a Kenyan with more than forty years’ experience in international development, health and human rights work and research. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Canada. Dr. Manji is the founder and publisher of Daraja Press, founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press, and the founder and former executive director of Fahamu: Networks for Social Justice, a pan-African organization. He has published widely in politics, health and development.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a racial justice, labor, and international activist based in the United States. He is an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin); and the author of They're Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions.
Other featured contributions include: Kali Akuno, Samir Amin, David Austin, Jesse Benjamin, Angela Davis, Bill Fletcher Jr, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Lewis Gordon, Firoze Manji, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, and Olúfémi Táíwò—and others.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a racial justice, labor, and international activist based in the United States. He is an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin); and the author of They're Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions.
