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Dr Neville Augustus Dawes
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The First President of The Ghana Caribbean Association was Dr Neville Augustus Dawes (June 16, 1926 to May 13, 1984) was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jamaican parents Augustus Dawes (a Baptist missionary and teacher) and his wife Laura. and was raised in rural Jamaica, where the family returned where he was three years old. […]

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The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Story
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, on August 17, 1887, the youngest child of a stonemason (one who prepares stones for building). He went to the local elementary school, and at the age of fourteen became an apprentice (working to gain experience) in the printing trade. In 1903 he went to […]

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George Padmore
by the G.B. U. Public Relations Division, Office of the Prime Minister, Trinidad and Tobago, 1976

Trinidadians have played a conspicuous part in the Pan African Movement, and in the African anti-colonial struggle. H. Sylvester Williams originated the movement in 1990. George Padmore was one of the fathers of African liberation in the 1940s and 1950s. Born Malcom Nurse at Arouca in 1902, his father was an interesting personality, a black […]

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