# Michael Thelwell

> Ekwueme Michael Thelwell 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.

*Essayist, activist, novelist, and educator (1939-)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1939
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell 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.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 38.0
- **Momentum:** 5.1

## Sources
- [Ekwueme Michael Thelwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekwueme_Michael_Thelwell)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834840)

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