ABSTRACT
Dudley Thompson was born in Panama, raised in Jamaica and served as a frontline activist for African Liberation and was one of the key pioneers of the Pan-African movement that helped bring about decolonisation in Africa. W.E.B. Du Bois is often credited as being the father of Pan-Africanism, and he defined it as the collective understanding among all people of African descent in order to bring about the liberation and freedom of Black people. West Indian lawyer Henry Sylvester Williams, who practised in England, initiated the first Pan-African Congress meeting in Europe in 1900 to discuss the problems of colonialism and racial discrimination. In the United States, the quest for a distinct Black identity in the arts gave birth to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, during which African-American artists, writers, musicians, dancers and intellectuals experimented with their African heritage.
