Prof. RAYMOND K. KENT

Raymond Knezevich Kent was born in 1929, in Belgrade , Yugoslavia. He comes from a
prominent Serb family. He attended the Italo-Slav Elementary School in Trieste, Italy
where his father, Nikola, wa the Consul of Yugoslavia for many years. He completed six
years of lycee in Belgrade and was then expelled from school by the Communist
authorities with a seven-year ban on further education. He fled to Italy in October
1945, joined the RAF ground personnel and moved on to Beirut, Lebanon , where his father
had been the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Yugoslav Royal Government in Exile.

He came to America at the end of his teens. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean
War and served in its intelligence unit in Trieste, Italy (1952-1953). He became a U.S.
citizen in 1954, earning a BS and an MA in Political Science at Columbia University in
New York (1959). Seven years later he became one of the first Americans to earn a
doctorate in African History (University of Wisconsin at Madison). He minored in
Brazilian and Balkan History. He is fluent in five languages. From 1966 to 1991 he
taught African History at the Berkeley Campus of the University of California. Three
books and two dozen articles reflect the long years of research with primary focus on
the History of Madagascar. He took an early retirement in 1991 to devote himself to the
defense of the Serbs coming increasingly under a structured and well-organized
deformation as a people. He followed the details of the Yugoslav fratricide in several
languages and monitored closely the Clintonite “humanitarian” interventionism. As an
American who adopted his new country and was adopted in return, he refuses to join those
fellow-Americans who are bent on Imperialism abroad in falsification of the uniqueness
created by the Founding Fathers. For him, America is man’s noblest experiment in
co-habitation, a legacy perverted by the mistreatment of and violence against many
ethnicities abroad represented also in the American fabric.