From Kingston to Kenya

Released on 1993 by Dudley Thompson
From Kingston to Kenya

Author: Dudley Thompson

Publisher: The Majority Press

ISBN: 0912469293

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 164

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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.

From Kingston to Kenya
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