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Horace Campell

Horace Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in Syracuse New York. He is a noted Pan African Scholar and writer. He has an activist and a scholar for more than  40 years.

From his early years in Jamaica, Campbell has been involved in the Black Liberation Struggle and in the struggles for peace and justice. From his years in Toronto, Canada to his sojourns in Africa (Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe), the United Kingdom and other parts of the Caribbean , he has been an influential force offering alternatives to the hegemonic ideas of capitalism. While at the University of Dar es Salaam, he was the Secretary of the Liberation Support Committee. As a member of the Dar Es Salaam school he was active in debates on the transition beyond colonialism. He also serves as the Chairperson of the Walter Rodney Commemoration Committee.

He is the author of numerous books including Global NATO and the catastrophic Failure in LibyaBarack Obama and 21st Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA; Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists, and African Liberation in the 21st Century; Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of LiberationTanzania and the IMF: The Dynamics of Liberalization; and Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney.

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