David Comissiong Explained

Birth Name:	David Andre Comissiong
Birth Place:	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Education:	Harrison College University of the West Indies at Cave Hill; Hugh Wooding Law School
Occupation:	Attorney and political activist
Children:	2

David Comissiong (born 1960)^[1] is a Vincentian-born political activist, founder of the Clement Payne Movement, and former head of the Barbadian government's Commission for Pan-African affairs.^[2] He is a frequent critic of globalization and United States hegemony.^[3] Comissiong is one of the key Pan-Africanists in Caribbean politics.

Biography

David Andre Comissiong was born in 1960 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He attended Harrison College in Barbados, and went on to study at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill (Barbados), then at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad & Tobago, where he was admitted to the bar in 1984.^[4]

He starred in the multi-award-winning documentary 500 Years Later (2005), which featured Maulana Karenga, Muhammed Shareef, Francis Cress Welsin, Kimani Nehusi, Paul Robeson Jr, Nelson George, and many others.^[5]

Comissiong is the author of the 2013 book It's the Healing of the Nation: The Case For Reparations In An Era of Recession and Re-colonisation.^[6] He is also the author of Marching Down the Wide Streets of Tomorrow: Emancipation Essays and Speeches, published in 2008. An attorney by profession, he is married with two daughters.

Bibliography

• Marching Down the Wide Streets of Tomorrow: Emancipation Essays and Speeches, 2008,,
• It's the Healing of the Nation: The Case For Reparations In An Era of Recession and Re-colonisation, 2013, .
• The Pan-African Love Story of Arnold and Mignon Ford, 2020, .

Further reading

• "Interview with David Commissiong (Bridgetown, Barbados, September 15, 1998)", in Rodney Worrell, Pan-Africanism in Barbados: An Analysis of the Activities of the Major 20th-Century Pan-African Formations in Barbados, Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2005, pp. 116–19.

External links

• IMDB Profile
• Stand Firm
• Nation News Paper
• Pan-African Commission

Notes and References

1. Kimberley Cummins, "David Comissiong’s life of service", Barbados Today, 10 September 2013: "The 53- year-old (spacing and punctuation Sic) Comissiong (...)".
2. Rodney Worrell, Pan-Africanism in Barbados: An Analysis of the Activities of the Major 20th-Century Pan-African Formations in Barbados, Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2005, p. 99.
3. Comissiong, David, "Rome, Hitler And Bush - Facing Reality", Barbados Daily Nation, 24 March 2003 – via CAH (Crimes Against Humanity).
4. Web site: Biography David Comissiong. Caribbean Elections. 3 October 2022.
5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444593/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast 500 Years Later
6. It's the Healing of the Nation: The Case For Reparations In An Era of Recession and Re-colonisation, Caribbean Chapters, 2013. .