Name: We are Internationalists
Start: 2025-11-05T18:30:00-06:00
Location: Haymarket House

BOOK RELEASE AND TALK
We Are Internationalists, Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation
Join Haymarket Books and HotHouse Media for a conversation about US SOLIDARITY FOR the fight to end apartheid and colonialism in Africa and lessons for our movements for liberation today. Sylvia Ewing hosts a panel discussion featuring author Martha Biondi, PREXY NESBITT, Basil Clunie, Cheryl Johnson- Odim, Lisa Brock, and Anne Evens.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT HAYMARKET HOUSE 800 W BUENA AVE, CHICAGO
6:30- 8pm
Suggested donation $5 / no one turned away
Light refreshments served
Books available for purchase
We Are Internationalists, Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation
We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025) This book tells the transnational story of the Chicago anti-apartheid and anticolonial solidarity movement through the organizing work of Prexy Nesbitt. From the 1960s to the 1990s, he built upon multiple international networks to combat imperialism and racism locally and globally.
Sylvia Ewing is a Chicago-based journalist with a long history in broadcast television and other platforms. She's an organizer, teacher and poet who worked for many years on solidarity organizing for southern Africa.
Anne Evens heads Elevate, a nonprofit that works to promote equitable access to clean, safe, and affordable heat, power, and water for people—no matter who they are, or where they live. Evens was active in the antiapartheid movement and lived for several years as a "cooperante" in Mozambique.
Cheryl Johnson-Odim is an historian of Africa who spent her career as a professor, dean and provost in Chicago-area colleges and universities. She was a leader in the divestment and Free South Africa campaigns in Chicago.
Lisa Brock is an historian of the African Diaspora who taught for many years at Columbia College Chicago where she founded and built the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection. She directed the Arcus Center for Social Justice at Kalamazoo College. Lisa was active in the antiapartheid and broader solidarity movement in southern Africa.
Basil Clunie, a transplanted New Yorker, worked for many years at Northwestern University. He was active in the Chicago divestment and Free South Africa Movement and traveled to South Africa as an election observer as part of the historic 1994 elections.