Tundu Lissu, exiled Tanzania’s Presidential candidate and top opposition figure, will be this week in Barcelona to participate as the keynote speaker on the seminar ‘Political repression and exile in Africa: the case of Tanzania’, organized by the Center for Contemporary Studies (CETC) in collaboration with the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP). The event will take place at the ICIP Library (Tapineria street, 10, Barcelona; first floor) on Friday, May 6, at 12 pm.

Lissu has been a member of the Tanzanian Parliament between 2010 and 2020, as well as Tanzania’s presidential candidate in 2020. An outspoken critic of Tanzania’s former president, John Magufuli, during a break in a Parliament’s session in 2017 Lissu was attacked by gunmen and ended up critically wounded. He was first sent to Kenya and then to Belgium to undergo medical treatment and surgery, where he now lives awaiting for a favorable political environment in his home country to return.

Building up on his own personal experience, Tund Lissu will address recent trends in political repression in Africa –and beyond the continent– reflecting on the threat it poses on democracies and the role of political opposition in an atmosphere of global fragility for liberal societies. The seminar will be moderated by Manuel Manonelles, director of the Center for Contemporary Studies.

This session is part of the IDEES’ magazine special issue ‘Africa: center stage of a changing reality‘.

The event is open to the public. Limited seats.

Please register here.

• May 6, 2022
• 12 pm
• ICIP Library (Tapineria street, 10, Barcelona; first floor)
• Language: English