A conference in honour of Professor Rupert Lewis entitled "Black Radical Thought, Pedagogy and Praxis was  held  October 11 to 12  on the Mona Campus.

Rupert Lewis has spent a lifetime dedicated to teaching and activism meant to affirm people of African descent in the Caribbean and globally. His work on Marcus Garvey and Walter Rodney has been critical to the search for knowledge and understanding in the realities of African Diaspora peoples. He has also been involved in giving practical expression to Pan African ideals through efforts to build institutions of scholarship in Africa and its Diaspora and through activism. Rupert Lewis has also been a thinker and activist of the Left.