Congratulations Professor Verene A. Shepherd

• by admin on April 6th, 2010

Congratulations to Professor Verene A. Shepherd who has been appointed to the Working Group of Experts on People of African descent. The working group was established by the (United Nations) Commission on Human Rights to address human issues affecting people of African descent.

Professor Shepherd is Professor of Social History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and the author and editor of several books, her latest being Livestock Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica.  She is also the producer and host of ‘Talking History’ on Jamaican radio station Nationwide Radio 90 FM.

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