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Malcolm Nurse (he adopted the alias of George Padmore in 1927) was the grandson of an enslaved African, Alphonso Nurse, who was born in the Belle Plantation in Barbados, West Indies. Alphonso Nurse learnt the trade of masonry and later migrated to nearby Trinidad. Padmore’s father, James Nurse, was a member of the prestigious London-based Entomological Society and a renowned Caribbean botanist. The rebelliousness and radicalism of his grandfather combined with the intellect of his father was an essential component of the psyche of George Padmore, who eventually became the “chief theoretician of the Pan-African movement.”1 James described him as “the father of African emancipation.”2
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Teelucksingh, J. (2016). Comrade of the Global Working Class: George Padmore the Activist. In: Ideology, Politics, and Radicalism of the Afro-Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94866-6_4
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