who passed away at the ripe age of 90 years on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, cannot be forgotten. Nigeria regained democratic freedom in 1999 after a long period of military regimes that ushered in the dark days of two former Heads of State, Generals Ibrahim Babangida and the late Sani Abacha,
He practised law in Massachusetts and served on the three-member Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, becoming, at the age of 27, the youngest person to be appointed a commissioner in the state’s history. While there, he was in charge of the case, which led to the Boston Red Sox, the last remaining all-white Major League Baseball Team, hiring its first black player.
From 1997 to 1998, and again in 1999, Carrington worked as a fellow of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute. He was also a MacArthur Fellow in 1998. In 2004, he was named the first African-American Warburg Professor of International Relations at Simmons College in Boston. According to Tinubu, “Walter was both an African and an American. This identity he knew full well, for it shaped who he was and guided what he did. The best of both worlds was evident in him. This man may have been the citizen of one country but he was surely the brave and passionate son of two nations.
According to Tinubu, “We were in the clutches of an epic battle between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and oppression, between enlightened progress and authoritarian reaction. Carrington could have maintained a diplomatic distance. He could have acted cozily with the Abacha regime. His life would have been less difficult and safer. But he eschewed personal comfort for the higher prize of a greater mission.
NCFront said, “He was a friend of the oppressed, who believed in the capacity of human beings of all races to govern themselves. He had an abiding faith in the capacity of all human beings – black or white, Jews, Hebrews, Caucasian, Africans, Asians and all races, to decide on who and how to be governed.
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