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Pauulu Kamarakafego

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Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego was political activist, civil rights leader, parliamentarian and world recognized expert in ecological/environmental engineering. Born Roosevelt Brown on November 28, 1932 in Middletown, Pembroke, he later changed his name to Pauulu Roosevelt Osiris Nelson Brown Kamarakafego. He attended Howard Academy in Bermuda [a now defunct school which was located on Roberts Avenue] and went on to New York University, University of South Carolina, North Carolina University and obtained his doctoral degree in Ecological Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1959. Locally he is best remembered for his work with universal adult suffrage and organizing the Black Power conference of 1969. He was a Member of Parliament in the late 1960s and 1970s. Internationally he was an expert in his field, working with various governments as well as the United Nations.[1]

Historian Tracey Banivanua Mar describes his involvement in the rise of Pacific Black consciousness: "He visited Australia to ‘let the black people of Australia know they were not alone’. Brown was a thoroughly transnational figure. His political mentor was the giant of Black intellectual culture, C. L. R. James, and with a PhD in Ecological Engineering, Brown had worked in Liberia, Ghana and Kenya in the early years of independence. In 1969, he helped to organise the Black Power Conference in Bermuda with an emphasis on building Black communities, the ‘control of white violence’, and the production of ‘a positive Black political force’. In Australia where the media had developed an interest in the ‘sinister aspect of Black Power’, Brown was interviewed on Australian radio about the conference. From Bermuda he noted in the course of the interview the abuse of the land and human rights of Black ‘brothers and sisters’ in Australia and the Pacific."[2]

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