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Jun 28, 1903 Arouca, Aveiro District, Portugal Died on 23 Sep 1959 (aged 56)
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About George Padmore
- George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author.
- He left 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 USSR made a decisive shift in foreign policy: Britain and France, colonial powers with active occupations in Africa, were classified as "democratic-imperialisms" — a lower priority than the category of "fascist-imperialist" powers, in which Japan and Germany fell.
- This shift fell into direct contradiction with Padmore's prioritization of African liberation, as Germany and Japan had no colonies in Africa.
- Padmore broke instantly with the Kremlin, but continued to support socialism.
- Padmore lived for a time in France, before settling in London.
- Toward the end of his life he moved to Accra, Ghana, where he helped shape the politics of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party.
