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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.Margaret Cezair-Thompson is the author of 'From Kingston to Kenya: The Making of a Pan-Africanist Lawyer', published 1993 under ISBN 9780912469294 and ISBN 0912469293.
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