David Comissiong
Born
David Andre Comissiong

1960 (age 63–64)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
EducationHarrison College; University of the West Indies at Cave Hill; Hugh Wooding Law School
Occupation(s)Attorney and political activist
Children2

David Comissiong (born 1960)[1] is a Vincentian-born political activist, founder of the Clement Payne Movement, and former head of the Barbadian government's Commission for Pan-African affairs.[2] He is a frequent critic of globalization and United States hegemony.[3] Comissiong is one of the key Pan-Africanists in Caribbean politics.

Biography

David Andre Comissiong was born in 1960 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He attended Harrison College in Barbados, and went on to study at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill (Barbados), then at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad & Tobago, where he was admitted to the bar in 1984.[4]

He starred in the multi-award-winning documentary 500 Years Later (2005), which featured Maulana Karenga, Muhammed Shareef, Francis Cress Welsin, Kimani Nehusi, Paul Robeson Jr, Nelson George, and many others.[5]

Comissiong is the author of the 2013 book It's the Healing of the Nation: The Case For Reparations In An Era of Recession and Re-colonisation.[6] He is also the author of Marching Down the Wide Streets of Tomorrow: Emancipation Essays and Speeches, published in 2008. An attorney by profession, he is married with two daughters.

Bibliography

  • Marching Down the Wide Streets of Tomorrow: Emancipation Essays and Speeches, 2008, ISBN 978-976-8219-51-0, ISBN 976-8219-51-3
  • It's the Healing of the Nation: The Case For Reparations In An Era of Recession and Re-colonisation, 2013, ISBN 978-976-95522-3-4.
  • The Pan-African Love Story of Arnold and Mignon Ford, 2020, ISBN 978-9769653702.

References

  1. ↑ Kimberley Cummins, "David Comissiong’s life of service", Barbados Today, 10 September 2013: "The 53- year-old (spacing and punctuation Sic) Comissiong (...)".
  2. ↑ Rodney Worrell, Pan-Africanism in Barbados: An Analysis of the Activities of the Major 20th-Century Pan-African Formations in Barbados, Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2005, p. 99.
  3. ↑ Comissiong, David, "Rome, Hitler And Bush - Facing Reality", Barbados Daily Nation, 24 March 2003 – via CAH (Crimes Against Humanity).
  4. ↑ "Biography | David Comissiong". Caribbean Elections. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  5. ↑ 500 Years Later at IMDb.
  6. ↑ It's the Healing of the Nation: The Case For Reparations In An Era of Recession and Re-colonisation, Caribbean Chapters, 2013. ISBN 978-976-95522-3-4.

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