Firoze is currently a CODESRIA African Diaspora Visiting Fellow with the Paola Freire Project of the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan-African social justice newsletter and website and Pambazuka Press / Fahamu Books. Previously Firoze worked as Head of CODESRIA’s Documentation, Information and Communications Centre, Dakar, Senegal; Africa Programme Director for Amnesty International; Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK); Regional Representative for Health Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa for the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC); researcher at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and lecturer in the Dental School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nairobi. He is a member of the editorial review board of Global Critical Caribbean Thought, a member of the editorial board of Nokoko, Journal of the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, and a member of the international advisory board of the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs.
Firoze is a Senior Research Fellow of the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. Member of the advisory board of ZANJ: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies. He has published widely, including African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions (co-edited with Sokari Ekine) and Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral (co-edited with Bill Fletcher Jr.). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of AwaaZ Magazine (Kenya). He is a former board member of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Greenpeace Africa. He served as a member of the Permanent People’ Tribunal on the Role of TNCs in Southern Africa (2018-9). He is a Board member of the Association of English Language Publishers in Québec (AELAQ), a board member of GRAIN, and a board member of The Breach. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine (U. London), an MSc in Dental Public Health (U. London), and a BDS (U. Newcastle-upon-Tyne). He is Kenyan, but based in Québec, Canada.
Media experience:
Former editor of the prizewinning weekly online magazine, Pambazuka News (2000-2012).
Honours/Awards
The 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
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