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What do you think about it? What has brought it about and is it a good thing?

Renaissance Where?

By Whom?

Who selling tickets for a Steamship to Africa?

lol...is that all Marcus Garvey represents to you?


Interesting signature by the way, I would like to find out more about that.

Liberty Hall:

Marcus Garvey WAS ABOUT a One Way Ticket for Black People back to Africa!

Marcus Garvey WAS NOT ABOUT Hanging around to build a better America for the White Ruling Class.
http://afroamhistory.about.com/libra...ey_fbimemo.htm

What about bringing Afrika to wherever Black people are...do you think Garvery realized that some Blacks were not going to physically return to the continent but that we could effectively "Afrikanize" wherever we found ourselves?

Liberty Hall:

If you really wanna know what was INSIDE Marcus Garvey's mind------

-------check with this Brotherman next time he comes to speak in your city:
http://www.themajoritypress.com/serv03.htm

Thanks; I have Tony Martin's "Race First" book as well as the one entitled "African Fundamentalism."

Perhaps you should check out this thread: Black History Month ~ Book List

Garvey's ideals were great for their time and much of his philosphies are relevant even today. Perhaps especially today.

I, in many ways see myself as a Garveyite and make no apologies for that. I strongly believe in his striving for self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship. He had his failings like all of us do (his almost rigid adherence to "race purity" for example) but overall he was definitely what the the African and Afri-Diasporic world needed at that time.

Whether now is a time for a Garvey renaissance depends partly on how far one chooses to re-interpret and re-implement his ideas and philosophies. There is definite need for more African people across the globe to at the very least establish more solid links that include entrepreneurship and politics. Ventures like the Black Star Line can be revamped (and managed more professionally) as well as the whole concept of the Liberty Hall which back in the 1920s and 30s were little centres of community-enhancing, educational and commercial programs.

At the same time I often ask if his dream ever really went away; his speeches and writings influenced people from Kwame Nkrumah to Malcolm X. There was a lot of what can be identified as Garveyite self-help in the Black Panthers' ventures back in the 70s. Perhaps if more of these ventures, which I believe still can be found albeit in pockets around the Diaspora, were highlighted, perhaps we can find ways of linking them and in so doing bring about a real Garvey renaissance.

Good post.. but nuff of us are living in mental slavery:
only ourselves can free our minds
We need more solidarity in our communities and start to look within to stop the things that are holding us back

did someone say solidarity...
solidarity
A noun
1 solidarity

a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group

FOR SURVIVAL WE NEED A REVIVAL! -ella andall

nice thread, nice links articles AND music, delivers on all points. propers all around