After spending most of the year away, around half a million Afrikan young people have or will shortly returning to school this month. (1)  Discussions about “the new normal” will now likely be applied to the education system as our children transition out of the “old normal” that was far…

GARVEY LIVES! MOSIAH LIVES! As outlined on the previous show, the “religious” trajectory of the UNIA-ACL was “Afrikan Spiritual Orthodoxy: Afrikan must see God and the divine according to our own culture, and reject the imposition of others upon us.” (1) Even while doing this, the organisation remained the proverbial…

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…