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Shridath Ramphal: The Commonwealth and the World
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Edited By Richard Bourne
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ISBN: 978-1-906190-20-0
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This anthology of essays provides glimpses of a remarkable career and has been written by persons who worked with Shridath Ramphal or have researched his many contributions to the Caribbean, the Commonwealth and the global community, and to internationalism.
For an unequalled stint of 15 years (from 1975 to 1990), he was Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Having been a key player in bringing an end to Ian Smith’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence and institutional racism in Southern Rhodesia, he spent much of his last five years as Secretary-General, until 1990, in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. He had the satisfaction of playing a part in Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, and Namibia’s independence the following month.
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