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New mural appears in Stokes Croft
A new mural has been unveiled in Stokes Croft to promote a study visit to West Africa in March.
Painted by Bristol-based Community Lifelong Learning Study Group (COLLSAG), the mural on PRSC’s outdoor gallery wall on Jamaica Street involved artists from the Bristol Mural Collective.
A group of Bristol students will visit the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in March as part of a mission to build relationships with communities in the Sahel which are engaged in the fight for reparatory justice and asserting their right to self-determination.
Organised by the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Internationalist Standing Conference (PARISC), the mural attempts to visualise the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States by promoting social movement leaders from across the world alongside current calls to repair the global harm caused by European colonisation.
The mural on Jamaica Street was painted with the help of Bristol Mural Collective – photo: Mimi Sorrentino
The leaders depicted in the mural include Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana and Sarraounia Mangou, leader of the Azna people in modern day Niger who resisted French colonisation.
Alongside these leaders are Mary Estlin, a grassroots organiser from Clifton who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and for the women’s right to vote, and Basil Davidson, a journalist and historian who wrote more than thirty books about Afrikan history and independence struggles.
Communities will be able to join and follow the developments of the study-visit through PARISC media platforms.
The PARISC Secretariat is also organising global press conferences to be held in the capital cities of AES member states that will be open to online participation and collaboration.
Main photo: Mimi Sorrentino
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