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Remembering George Padmore

Of all the many figures of revolutionary Pan-Africanism, few have rivalled the giant that is George Padmore. A staunch anti-imperialist and architect of the Pan-African movement of the mid-twentieth century, the name George Padmore deserves to be placed alongside his better-known contemporaries such as C. L. R. James and Frantz Fanon.

Born Malcolm Evan Meredith Nurse on 28 June 1903 into a middle-class family, a young Nurse would find work as a journalist after first graduating from St. Mary’s College and Pamphilon High School in Port of Spain. On 10 September, a twenty-two-year-old Nurse married Julia Semper. For the man who would become one of the most prominent anti-colonial agitators of the early twentieth century, it seemed an unlikely marriage. Semper’s father was the most senior Black man in Trinidad’s colonial constabulary, and the reception took place in the police barracks.

Although growing up under colonial rule meant that he was no stranger to the reality of British imperialism, it was not until he attended university in the United States

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George Padmore

Trinidadian Pan-Africanist and writer (1903–1959)

For the Liberian ambassador George A. Padmore (1915–2005), see George Arthur Padmore.

George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author. He left his native Trinidad in 1924 to study medicine in the United States, where he also joined the Communist Party.

From there he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was active in the party, and working on African independence movements. He also worked for the party in Germany but left after the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. In 1935, the official foreign policy of the USSR shifted, Britain and France, colonial powers with colonies in Africa, were now referred "democratic-imperialisms", a lower priority than the category of "fascist-imperialist" powers, Germany and Japan. This shift fell into direct contradiction with Padmore's prioritization of African independence, as Germany and Japan had no colonies in Africa. Padmore broke instantly with the Kremlin, but continued to support socia

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