A View For Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks
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A View For Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks on the Caribbean, Cricket, Montreal, and C.L.R. James is a book published in June 2005 by The Alfie Roberts Institute
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A View For Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks is based on an extensive interview with Alfie Roberts, conducted by David Austin in January 1995, over a year before Roberts died. With an introduction by David Austin and afterword by Robert Hill, it is Roberts’ testament on Caribbean
and African history and politics, cricket
, C. L. R. James
, the Sir George Williams Computer Riot
, the turbulent 1960s, and Montreal
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The Alfie Roberts Institute
The Alfie Roberts Institute is an independent non-governmental organization. It aims to provide a critical voice for change within African and Caribbean communities and society at large....
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A View For Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks is based on an extensive interview with Alfie Roberts, conducted by David Austin in January 1995, over a year before Roberts died. With an introduction by David Austin and afterword by Robert Hill, it is Roberts’ testament on Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
and African history and politics, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, C. L. R. James
C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James , who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts...
, the Sir George Williams Computer Riot
Sir George Williams Computer Riot
The Sir George Williams Computer Riot was a 1969 event at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada, now a part of Concordia University. It was the largest student occupation in Canadian history.- Overview :...
, the turbulent 1960s, and Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
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