The Emancipation Support Committee expresses its deepest condolences on the transition of Bro Makandal Daaga, Chief Servant and co-founder of the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) to his wife, Sister Liseli Daaga and his four children and to his sister and brother and the extended family of NJAC.
Daaga now joins other outstanding stalwarts of the 1970 Black Power Movement in the Caribbean who made the transition before him, such as Maurice Bishop of Grenada, Tim Hector of Antigua, Dr Walter Rodney of Guyana and from Trinidad and Tobago Kwame Ture (who made his mark in the USA), George Weeks, Winston Leonard, Lidj Yasu Omowale and Lasana Kwesi .
In Trinidad and Tobago, Daaga led the movement which has been credited with having had the greatest impact on reshaping the economy and the society of Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century.
Daaga will be an inspiration to the future generations of young people who don’t “sleep to dream but dream to change the world”.
Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago.
12/08/2016