Publishing was one of the main strategies adopted by black intellectuals in challenging the foundations of British colonial rule,[5] and Pizer's skills enabled her to play an important role in this global political struggle:She has been praised for her tireless work as a secretary to provide a living for Padmore, her typing efforts on his manuscripts, and her reputation as a consummate hostess and excellent chef for the revolving door of African and West Indian nationalists who came to their home.
[1]She transcribed the conversations between Padmore and Nancy Cunard on race relations and decolonisation that became their pamphlet The White Man's Duty: An Analysis of the Colonial Question in the Light of the Atlantic Charter (London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1942).
[6] In 1946, How Russia Transformed her Colonial Empire was published by Dennis Dobson as a collaboration between Pizer and Padmore, with her name appearing on the title page.
[4] In 1953 Dorothy persuaded Wright to visit the Gold Coast, where George had already started advising Kwame Nkrumah in his plans for its independence as Ghana.
[10] Dorothy herself visited the Gold Coast for the first time in 1954, and in 1957 the Padmores moved to Ghana permanently as special advisers to Kwame Nkrumah.
[12] Dorothy returned to Accra for her husband's state funeral, in which his ashes were buried at Christiansborg Castle,[13] and she continued to live in Ghana as an adviser to Nkrumah.