Global Icon series

The Global Icon series celebrates exceptional individuals whose ideas, activism and enduring work ‘changed the world’. Inspired by the legacy of Walter Rodney, a scholar and activist who tirelessly fought for the liberation of Black and colonized peoples, the Global Icon series focuses on historical figures from the Global South and African American communities who transformed their societies and the world through their thought and action.

General Editor

Professor David Dabydeen is the series editor for the Global Icon series. Born in Guyana in 1955, David is a novelist, academic and diplomat. He migrated to Britain as a child and went on to study at Cambridge University. He served as Professor of Postcolonial Literature at the University of Warwick from 1984 to 2017. He was Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010 and Guyana's Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015. He is one of the longest serving diplomats in the history of Guyana, with most of his work done in a voluntary capacity.