Rupert Lewis

Dr. Rupert Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Political Thought in the Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where he lectured for forty years in political science, political thought and Caribbean, African & global politics. He recently served as the inaugural Research Fellow in the PJ Patterson Centre for Africa- Caribbean Advocacy at the UWI working with former Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson to build bridges between the Caribbean and Africa. He has an international reputation as a scholar of the Garvey movement and Caribbean radicalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He collaborated with colleagues to organise two international academic conferences on Marcus Garvey at The University of the West Indies in 1973 and 1987. He co-edited two volumes, Garvey, Africa, Europe and the Americas and Garvey: His Work and Impact emerged from these conferences. In 2018 he published a biography of Marcus Garvey in the Caribbean Biography series published by the UWI Press. He is author of the book Walter Rodney’s Intellectual and Political Thought and has edited books on George Padmore, the Trinidadian Pan- Africanist and Richard Hart, the Jamaican Marxist. His essay ‘Black Power in the Caribbean’ was published in the Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions in 2020.