The Pan-Africanists - Softcover

Barrington Watson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9768123907 ISBN 13: 9789768123909

Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999

This book celebrates the life of 17 Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world. Inspired by the Pan-Africanists portfolio, a series of oil paintings by artist Barrington Watson, author Dudley Thompson presents the reader with succinct biographies each illustrated in full colour by a portrait in oil. Included among the biographies are Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta, Haile Selassie, Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jnr., Muhammad Ali, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela. This is both an art book and an important reference work for young readers throughout Africa and the Diaspora.. Barrington Watson is one of Jamaicas leading artists. He is the author of Shades of Grey, a collection of autobiographical stories illustrated with his own paintings.

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From the Back Cover:

This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberatin, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughtout the world. Inspried by the "Pan-Aricanists" portfolio, a series of oil paintings by artist Barrington Watson, the authors presesnt the reader with succinct biographies of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyata, Haile Selassie, Paul Robeson, rosa Parks, Maartin Lugher King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela.

Not all of them necessarily belonged formally to a Pan-Africanist organization or ever used the term in descriptions of themselves. But the life of each one of them manifests the core values of Pan-Africanism. Together, their lives represent a pwerful emodidment of the history of this social movement.

This is both an art book and an improtant reference work for young readers throughout Africa and the Diaspora.

About the Author:

Barrington Watson is Jamaica's master painter. The recipeint of several awards from many countries, he is recognised for his mastery of techniqued, depth of feeling and originality of vision. Hi is the auther of Shades of Grey, a collection of autobiographical stories illustrated with his own paintings. The "Pan-Africansits" portfolio, comprising 44 paintings, took him four years to complete.

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