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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.Dudley J. 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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