Walter C. Carrington (July 24, 1930[1][2] – August 11, 2020)[3] was an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Senegal and Nigeria.
Upon separation from the military, he entered a private law practice in Boston, Massachusetts; during that time, he also served as commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the youngest person to serve until that date.
On September 1, 2004, Carrington was named the Warburg Professor of International Relations at Simmons College in Boston.
In 1991, Carrington published Africa in the Minds and Deeds of Black American Leaders (with Edwin Dorn).
In 2010, he published A Duty to Speak: Refusing to Remain Silent in a Time of Tyranny, a compilation of his speeches supporting democracy and human rights in Nigeria during the Sani Abacha military dictatorship.