At Cambridge

Created by Bob 3 years ago

It is only now in 2020 that I learned of the death of Moses in 2018. I am greatly saddened as my wife  Britt, and I knew him well when Moses and I were postgraduates at Cambridge. I worked in the Centre for African Studies and we used to meet and talk a lot about politics, especially in Africa, and also about Italy and his PhD project on social movements in historical Emilia Romagna. Britt and I also attended his wedding in King's College Chapel. 

Moses was a genial and open man who was easy to talk to. My own PhD work was in Nigeria but I almost went to  northern Ghana from where Moses came. He had a close relationship to Professor Meyer Fortes, one of the world's  great anthropologists who worked in Ghana.

I left Cambridge in 1979 and went to Australia and we lost touch.

This is late, I know, but Britt and I extend our condolences to his wife and family.

Bob Pokrant, 11 October 2020.