Guyana to the United Nations from 1967 to 1969. He was elected to the presidency of the United Nations Council for South West Africa in 1968. He later served as Guyana's Ambassador to Venezuela. In 1973 South Africa lifted its ban on Braithwaite's books and he subsequently visited the country. While there he was granted the status of "honorary white", which gave him significantly more freedom of movement than the indigenous black population but less than the whites, a situation he found detestable. He recorded the experiences he witnessed during the six weeks he spent in South Africa in his book Honorary White (London: The Bodley Head, 1975, ). He taught English studies at New York University and in 2002 was a writer-in-residence at Howard University, Washington, D.C. He associated himself with Manchester Community College (Connecticut), during the 2005–06 academic year as a visiting professor. He also served as the college's commencement speaker for that year and received an honorary degree. He turned 100 in 2012, and on a visit to Guyana, in his capacity as the patron of the Inter-Guiana Cultural Festival, he was given a national award, the Cacique Crown of Honour, by then-President Donald Ramotar. In 2013, Braithwaite attended the first live performance of To Sir, With Love. The production was written by Ayub Khan Din for the stage as part of Royal & Derngate, Northampton's Made In Northampton season. The play was directed by Mark Babych and starred Ansu Kabia in the title role and Matthew Kelly. This was the first theater-adoption of the book. Personal life and death Braithwaite lived in Washington, D.C. with his partner, Genevieve Ast. Braithwaite died at the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Maryland, on December 12, 2016, at the age of 104. Selected bibliography To Sir, With Love (1959) Paid Servant (1962) A Kind of Homecoming (1962) Choice of Straws (1965) Reluctant Neighbors (1972) Honorary White (1975) Billingsly: The Bear With The Crinkled Ear (2014) See also List of teachers portrayed in films List of centenarians (authors, poets and journalists) References External links Manchester Community College News Item on E. R. Braithwaite Susie Thomas's article on the London Fictions site about To Sir, with Love Onyekachi Wambu (1998), Black British Literature since Windrush. BBC BBC 7 listing for 17/18 Oct 2008 Manchester, CT, Community College News Archive (February 3, 2006), Dr. Edward R. Braithwaite author of “To