Friday, December 7, 2012

Marcus Garvey

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.  ~ Marcus Garvey 

This week will feature Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Marcus Garvey is our ancestor who was a millionaire entrepreneur, business tycoon and intellectual, Pan-Africanist, educator and many more. He deserves all the celebration and homage. He should never be forgotten because he lives in our hearts and his example of excellence has paved way for people like Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and many people that we look up to. Even though he and W.E. DuBois had their differences, DuBois who is also someone we need to pay homage to also looked up to Marcus Garvey. I briefly talk about Malcolm X but there are countless books and information and if I spent time talking about his greatness then this will turn into a book with more than 50 chapters. This how great he was and how much he gave to our advancement in society. Marcus Garvey was born on 1887 in Jamaica. He had a large organization of over million members across over forty countries. In fact, I believe with his passing many members most likely joined the Nation of Islam because they saw the similarity in the teachings and leadership. This was a man of distinguish character.
He founded the UNIA or the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. The goal of the UNIA was the unification of our motherland Alke-bulan (Africa) and the economic advancement of our people worldwide. This is the many reasons why he was destroyed by the US government but he lives on in the ones willing to pick up the sword and carry on the mission. He believed in the empowerment of our people at home (Alke-bulan) and abroad (Diaspora). He understood that we were all one people and should work together for the empowerment of our people for the betterment of our people. Like I said before this is your life and you have to create it the way that you see fit. I will leave you here to find more info and take this great ancestral energy as an encouragement to become great. These were the words of Marcus Garvey  “ Therefore the American Negroes and the West Indian Negroes are one, and they are the relics of the great African race which was brought into the Western World and kept here for 300 years. I told them in Harlem that it was my duty to reunite the Negroes of the Western world with the Negroes of Africa (Alke-bulan), to make a great nation of Black men….” (The Ward Theatre, Kingston, 1927). Read More: Rupert Lewis, Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion; The Pan-Africanists
Dedications: 
Kwame Afari
Akua Abofari
Charles Philemon
Amaziah Ademulegun

Check Out Free Thinkers!!!!!!!!!!!
Diary of a Millionaire Mind: Marcus Garvey

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