The Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, under the directorship of Professor David Dabydeen, will be hosting the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Lecture today, to mark the tenth anniversary of Dr. Jagan’s death.

The lecture, entitled ‘Cheddi Jagan and Caribbean Politics’ will be given by Dr Amar Wahab, a former postdoctoral fellow at Warwick, who now teaches at the University of Toronto. Dr Wahab is a sociologist and cultural historian.

A press release from the Centre states that Dr Jagan first visited the University of Warwick in 1988 to attend an international conference on the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in Guyana. His second visit in 1989 was to participate in a conference on the ‘three Guianas,’ as well as to attend the University of Warwick’s Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture.

The Centre had organised visits by leading Caribbean politicians – Patrick Manning, Basdeo Panday, Deryck Bernard, Carl Greenidge, Rupert Roop-naraine, Clive Thomas, Moses Nagamootoo, Navin Chanderpaul and others. But Dr Jagan in Dabydeen’s words “was always our very special guest, and we were always delighted to have in our presence the pioneer of the anti-colonial movement in the region, a man of utter integrity, human decency and political vision.”