Asian canadian authors
Indo canadian authors.
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W.E.B. DuBois Greeting Unidentified Delegate, Afro-Asian Writers’
Conference, Tashkent, Soviet Union, 1958
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The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences were a series of gatherings of literary figures from Asia and Africa that took place over two decades to denounce imperialism and to establish cultural contacts among their countries.
The first conference (and by far the best known) was held in October 1958 in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan (at that time the Uzbek SSR, part of the Soviet Union). That conference featured 140 writers from 36 countries.
Subsequent conferences convened in Cairo, Egypt, in February 1962, in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 1967, in New Delhi, India, in November 1970, in Almaty, Kazakhstan (at that time the Kazakh SSR, part of the Soviet Union), in September 1973, and in Luanda, Angola, in June 1979.
The Afro–Asian Writers’ Conferences were inspired by the 1955 Asian–African Conference, that met in April 1955 in Bandung, I
