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Archbishop of York
Dr John Sentamu
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5pm / Bodleian Library, Divinity School,
Catte Street / £10.00
The 99th Archbishop of York and Primate of
all England, Dr John Sentamu is the country’s
first black Archbishop. Born in 1949 in Uganda,
the 6th of 13th children, Dr Sentamu was educated
at Makarere University, Kampala, and Selwyn
College, Cambridge. A judge in Uganda in the
mid 1970s, Dr Sentamu fled the persecution
of Idi Amin’s regime.
Previously Bishop of Stepney, and Bishop of
Birmingham, Dr Sentamu became Archbishop
of York in 2005. He was advisor to the Stephen
Lawrence murder enquiry (1997-1999) and
Chair of the Damilola Taylor Murder Review
(2002 –2003). One of the most admired and
outspoken commentators in Britain today,
Dr Sentamu will deliver the first annual lecture
on Englishness.
Supported by
Elleke Boehmer
Nelson Mandela:
A Very Short Introduction
5.15pm (10 minutes) / Blackwell Festival Bookshop,
Meadows Marquee, Christ Church / Free
As well as being a remarkable statesman and one
of the world’s longest-detained political prisoners,
Nelson Mandela has become an exemplary figure of
non-racialism and democracy, a moral giant. Once a
man without a known face, he became after his 1994
release one of the most internationally recognizable
images of our time. Join Elleke Boehmer as she
discusses Mandela the man and Mandela the symbol.
James Brabazon 710
Work in Progress:
Memoirs of a War Correspondent
6pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
Award-winning frontline journalist and documentary
filmmaker James Brabazon is currently working on
his journalist memoir, which he will discuss during
the Festival as a ‘work in progress’. Having reported
in more than 60 countries, investigating, filming and
directing in the world’s most hostile environments,
he has much to say.
James Brabazon first gained an international profile
as the only journalist to film the Liberian LURD
rebel group fighting to overthrow President Charles
Taylor. During the past six years he has worked on
independent commissions with Discovery; BBC2 (for
whom he made the current-affairs series The Violent
Coast in West Africa), and Channel 4, where he has
made fourteen films in the critically acclaimed
Unreported World series.
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