Jacques DEPELCHIN

Biographie : "Prof Jacques Depelchin is a committed intellectual, historian, poet, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and people-centred politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was born in the Congo and educated at Lovanium University (Kinshasa) in the DRC, the University of London, Johns Hopkins University in Italy, and at Stanford, where he received his PhD in History. He has taught African History and related subjects at universities in the DRC, Mozambique, Tanzania and Brazil, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, Stanford and Syracuse. Prof Depelchin has published a number of books throughout his long career, some of which include The Peasant’s Tale, Reclaiming African History and Silences in African History; between the syndromes of discovery and abolition. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DRC."(communiqué Unuv. Stellenbosch 02.2022)
Nationalité : Belgique