Dennis Brutus
is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Africana Studies.
Degrees: Fort Hare University English Department, B.A. with Distinction,
Witwatersrand University, LL.B. (partial).
Honorary Doctorates: University of Massachusetts, (Amherst), Worcester
State College, Worcester, MA, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, University
of the District of Columbia.
Tenured Professor: Department of English, Northwestern University.
Visiting Professorships: University of Texas, (Austin), Amherst College,
Dartmouth College, Swarthmore College, University of Durban - Westville, University
of Colorado-Boulder.
Faculty Member: Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO; S.S. Universe Spring Quarter
'95, Semester-At-Sea. First President: African Literature Association; Founding
Secretary, South African Sports Association; Patron South African Council on
Sports; Patron, Congress of South African Writers; President: South African
Non-Racial Olympic Committee; Vice-President: Union of Writers of the African
Peoples; Chairman: Africa Network.
Publications: 12 books of poetry (latest: Still the Sirens, Pennywhistle
Press, New Mexico).
Editorial Boards: Africa Today, Toward Freedom Journal, Transition, International
Jazz Archives Journal.
Honors: Honorary Co-President, Jubilee 2000 Afrika, 1st Annual Paul Robeson
Award for Excellence, Political Consciousness & Integrity, Moonstone Foundation,
Philadelphia, PA; Outstanding Teacher Award, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington,
D.C.; Honorary Centenary Committee Member, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association,
Sports Ethics Fellow, Institute for International Sport, University of Rhode
Island; Indian Books Abroad Award, 11th New Delhi World Book Fair; Testimony,
Hearings, Policies of Apartheid and the Government of South Africa, United Nations;
Symposia Post-Apartheid South Africa, University of Pittsburgh; U.N. International
Symposium on Cultural and Academic Links with South Africa, Los Angeles.
Citations: World Intellectuals, 1993; Contemporary Authors Autobiography
Series, 1992; World Authors, 1980-1985; New Encyclopedia Britannica.
Current Interests: African Literature, African Politics, Africa in the
New Global order, Poetry, Creative Writing.
UWAP (Union of Writers of African
Peoples)
The UWAP Webpage can be accessed manually at http://mercy2mercynet.edu/uwap/
Please feel free to send us your questions and comments: we wish to make this a service for all interested in African and African American Literature. We welcome additional material for incorporation in this developing project.
Picture Above: Dennis Brutus outside Superior Court, District of Columbia,
with Dr. Vernell Lillie, Chairperson, Africana Studies Department, University
of Pittsburgh, on August 14, 2000. Brutus, a Professor Emeritus in the department,
was charged in a civil disobedience action on February 28, 2000, on behalf of
Mumia Abu Jamal and against the Death Penalty: 185 were arrested. The charge
was dropped.
SEATTLE, WA -- October 16, 2000
At a mass meeting of 200 activists in Seattle last night, South African leader Dennis Brutus proposed three initiatives to take forward the Anti-Corporate Globalization campaign. These proposals were enthusiastically endorsed by people in this north west U.S. city that has come to symbolize global resistance.
This call now goes out to groups throughout the world:
| 1. At the Dakar 2000 Summit on Debt (11th-17th December), the Third World Network position on the African Growth and Opportunity Act (now known as the "Africa Recolonization Act") should be endorsed. This position calls for a campaign to get African countries to boycott the AGOA plan. We also call on activists in the U.S. to work to rescind the Act. |
| 2. The activities and policies of the World Bank and IMF, which lead to the deaths daily of 19,000 children, should be condemned as criminal behavior, and the perpetrators named. Dennis Brutus named Stanley Fischer (IMF), Trevor Manuel (WB), and Matts Karlsson (WB). |
| 3. The World Bank Bond Boycott Campaign should be endorsed at all levels. Under this campaign, organizations throughout the world, including city governments, schools, colleges, trade unions and others are passing resolutions not to buy bonds issued by the Bank and IMF. |
 |
: dvbmay@pitt.edu |
