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MY MENTOR, THE GREAT PAN-AFRICANIST, RAS MAKONNEN (1909-1983).


           

Ras Makonnen in his Pan-Africanist days in the 1930s and 1940s in Manchester, England.
I am standing with Dr. Ras Makonnen in front of his house in Nairobi, Kenya in 1980.
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MY SECOND MENTOR, THE BRILLIANT SCHOLAR, KWESI PRAH
 
The picture of Professor Kwesi Prah was taken in front of his house in Cape Town in early December, 2008 by Professor Ghirmai Negash of Ohio University in Athens, while I was standing by admiring the visage of Professor Prah.


The Impact of Kwesi Prah on me in my High School days in Nairobi, Kenya in the 1960s.