Ekwueme Michael Thelwell | |
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Born | Michael Miles Thelwell 25 July 1939 |
Education | Jamaica College |
Alma mater | Howard University; University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Occupation(s) | Writer, professor and civil rights activist |
Notable work | The Harder They Come (1980) |
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell (born Michael Miles Thelwell; 25 July 1939) is a Jamaican novelist, essayist, professor and civil rights activist. He was in 1970 founding chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]