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She has been praised for her tireless work as a secretary to provide a living for
Padmore, her typing efforts on his manuscripts, and her reputation as a consummate hostess and excellent chef for the revolving door of African and West Indian nationalists who came to their home. Yet she was much more
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the pair were living together. She was always treated as
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Dorothy herself visited the Gold Coast for the first time in 1954, and in 1957 the
Padmores moved to Ghana permanently as special advisers to Kwame Nkrumah. At the time of her husband's premature death in 1959, Dorothy Padmore was visiting
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Every anti-colonial activist organizing against
British imperialism came .... George and Dorothy would give dinners to all the people who came to them. They were in the struggle together for many years – dedicated internationalists and
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Publishing was one of the main strategies adopted by black intellectuals in challenging the foundations of
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and his wife in 1947, and over the next decade the couples often visited each other in London and Paris. In 1953 Dorothy persuaded Wright to visit the
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