Farewell Jerry. My comrade. My friend. You were a larger-than-life personality. You were a man of intense passion, courage, conviction, and fortitude with an incredible capacity to communicate your emotions and perspectives and to inspire action in individuals, institutions, and nations. I recognise your strong personal code – a mixture of “old time” traditional, Catholic, and military values. I know that at the centre of this was a deep sense of solidarity with the downtrodden and of outrage against the “down-pressors” of the world. You believed in the dignity of labour and in simple living and in leadership by example. You loved Ghana deeply - her peoples, her cultures, and her physical beauty. You may not have expressed your views in classical/ideological “anti-imperialist” or “pan-Africanist” terms, but there was never any doubt that about. your love for all of Africa. Indeed, you burned with indignation at the legacies of slavery and colonialism and the resultant disrespect that black people suffer everywhere. And you were willing to take direct and often undiplomatic actions to fight back against this prejudice.