BERMUDA
April 3, 2007
TO: Friends, Associates, Family of Pauulu Roosevelt Osiris Nelson Browne Kamarakafego
From: Jimmy (James) Garrett
Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego, was a world recognized expert in ecological/environmental engineering. Pauulu was active for 50 years in sustainable development projects, Pan African and human rights struggles, emergency relief, and education efforts around the world.
Pauulu Chronicle:Â (Examples) Congress of African People in the USA in 1968; the Sixth Pan African Congress and onwards in Tanzania and Uganda. Pioneered connections/networks of Black people in Australia, Tasmania, Fiji
Islands,
Goa,
Mauritius,
Brazil, Africa, Europe Caribbean and North and
South America.
Established ecological based industries in Papua/New Guinea, Vanu Watu, and Solomon Islands. Established water treatment projects in Sri Lanka, West Africa, Global Tsunami warning system projects
Co-Designed and constructed animal preserves in Liberia, Tanzania, and Kenya \Designed new levee system for New Orleans/Mississippi
Gulf (2006)
Organizer: United Nations 14th Commission on Sustainable Development (2006)
Additonal Information
“We should always give back to society, wherever we are. This can take many forms, including teaching, doing volunteer work, and informing the public of their rights. Help where you can, always, live in a sustainable way, and remain humble.”
                                                                   Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego
As an advocate for sustainable resources, Pauulu, a former member of the Bermuda Parliament and an ecological engineer, boasted a long and successful career in rural community development, ecology, and resource sustainability in Africa, the Pacific, and the European Economic Community (EC). In the forefront of the global ecology and sustainability movements, a leader of Bermuda’s Universal Adult suffrage movement, he advised political leaders throughout the world on rural development, ecological balance, and rural technology.
On the international front, Pauulu was the coordinator of the International Network of Small Island Developing states of NGOs and Indigenous People (ISNI), of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Caribbean, Atlantic/Mediterranean, the Artic Regions and the Diaspora. He was an international expert and United Nations consultant on rural development and renewable energy sources. He also lent his expertise on Global Sustainability to the EEC and the Commonwealth Fund of Technical Cooperation’s (CFTC) Rural Development Program.
He was chief executive officer of the Pan-African movement to the United Nations, served on the executive advisory board of the W.E.B. DuBois Foundation, and was an advisory board member of the Center for Development of International Law (Washington, D.C.). He also served on the executive and steering committees of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
His latest contribution, was a New Orleans Levee design similar to the levee built in Amsterdam to prevent flooding.
He wrote Me One, The autobiography of Pauulu Kamarakafego. In this autobiography, Pauulu shares his early academic experiences in the United States, and his time as a young man in Cuba. He showed us the processes and events that transformed him from Roosevelt Browne of Bermuda to Pauulu Roosevelt Osiris Nelson Browne Kamarakafego, citizen of Liberia, Tanzania, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and St. Kitts. A Pan-Africanist; organizerinthe Nations for non-governmental organizatios; lecturer; community organizer; adviser to presidents and ministers; parliamentarian; builder; teacher; father; and keeper of a dream. He took us behind the scenes of some of the major political events of the era and documents the campaign for Universal Adult Suffrage in Bermuda and his time as a Bermuda Parliamentarian.
He examined in detail the Black Power movements throughout the world, including the Sixth Pan-African Congress. In his work in Africa and the Pacific, he showed us the local people at work and at play, and showed us the troubles of the modern world. If you are interested in purchasing his autobiography email me at Nankoanda@aol.com .
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