GARVEY LIVES! MOSIAH LIVES! Attempts to characterise Marcus Mosiah Garvey and indeed the UNIA-ACL as Christian, though persistent are not borne out by the evidence.  Arguably, Garveyism owes more to the example of “the first Black Republic” than any Abrahamic legacy.  Indeed, the spirit of Haiti’s Revolution, was well encapsulated…

GARVEY LIVES! MOSIAH LIVES! The Most Eminent Prophet and King, His Excellency – Marcus Mosiah Garvey ‘s expansive vision sought to develop the necessary institutions that would render Afrikans globally self-reliant and self-sufficient.  Thus, from the earliest initiatives like the industrial farm in Jamaica, through the Negro Factories Corporation, The…

GARVEY LIVES! MOSIAH LIVES! Historically, mainstream academia for the most part has not been kind to the Garvey Movement. (1)  In this state of affairs can be seen as merely a reflection of its social function. (2)  Even the advent of Black Studies movement, that emanated from the Black Power…

GARVEY LIVES! MOSIAH LIVES! Those Afrikans that were unborn or just born when the first community Mosiah Season was observed in 1998, now constitute the largest age group of Afrikans in the UK. (1) Within the context of the ongoing George Floyd/BLM protests this generation should be ripe to take…

In his classic text The Wrteched of the Earth, Franz Fanon extolled the liberation maxim:: “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it” (1) Thus we speak to those responsible for framing and contextualising that mission – the parents/practitioners; as well those charged…