From Kingston to Kenya

The Making of a Pan-Africanist Lawyer

• Author(s): Dudley Thompson, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Margaret Cezair Thompson,
• Publisher: The Majority Press
• Pages: 144
• ISBN_10: 0912469293
  ISBN_13: 9780912469294
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State , Law / General , Law / Legal Profession , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Black Studies (Global) ,

Description:... Born in Panama of Jamaican parents, Dudley Thompson won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in the 1950s, where he involved himself in the Pan-Africanist movement alongside such figures as George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah. Working in Kenya and Tanzania, he became a close friend of Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere, and was instrumental in obtaining the release of the former when he was arrested during Kenya's struggle for independence.