As we celebrate Human Rights Week, we will do well to reflect on our heroes and heroines – men and women who dedicated their lives to fight for the human dignity of the people of African descent in Africa, in the diaspora and all over the world.
They lived in much more difficult times than we have to contend with today, but they had a calling in their lives to pave the way for us.
In a foreword to the book, They Are Africans by Barrister Dudley Thompson, (OJ, QC, an internationally renowned barrister), with paintings by Barrington Watson, (Jamaican master painter), former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, says: “While all these leaders would have continued to struggle for Africa's future, I believe they would have been prouder still of the…