https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5xonFSC4c

emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.

@Chrissy

Disciples- Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Nesta... Ironic that one of his fiercest critic W.E.B. left The US to China then Ghana where he took his last breath.

@Brerzerk

in the end Du Bois too headed back to Africa.

@Brerzerk wrote:

@Chrissy

Disciples- Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Nesta... Ironic that one of his fiercest critic W.E.B. left The US to China then Ghana where he took his last breath.

He also influences the racist Mahatma Gandhi to return to India and form the freedom movement. Many Caribbean and African leaders were inspired by Garvey.

I am amaze that this post did not gather more traffic

The Caribbean still does not have a full appreciation for its heroes. Who mentions people like Toussaint L'Ouverture, CLR James, Constantine, Worrell, Eric Williams, Norman Manley, Grantley Adams, Derek Walcott, Vidia Naipaul, Allen Lewis, Rudi Capildeo and many others who also helped create the Caribbean identity that we have now largely squandered in pursuit of a lifestyle like that in other countries?

@PalsofMine wrote:

The Caribbean still does not have a full appreciation for its heroes. Who mentions people like Toussaint L'Ouverture, CLR James, Constantine, Worrell, Eric Williams, Norman Manley, Grantley Adams, Derek Walcott, Vidia Naipaul, Allen Lewis, Rudi Capildeo and many others who also helped create the Caribbean identity that we have now largely squandered in pursuit of a lifestyle like that in other countries?

Big, big question dat Sah!

@PalsofMine wrote:

The Caribbean still does not have a full appreciation for its heroes. Who mentions people like Toussaint L'Ouverture, CLR James, Constantine, Worrell, Eric Williams, Norman Manley, Grantley Adams, Derek Walcott, Vidia Naipaul, Allen Lewis, Rudi Capildeo and many others who also helped create the Caribbean identity that we have now largely squandered in pursuit of a lifestyle like that in other countries? who have giv

Yes indeed, we don't appreciate our heroes, they provide us with a rich history.

@tc1 wrote:

@PalsofMine wrote:

The Caribbean still does not have a full appreciation for its heroes. Who mentions people like Toussaint L'Ouverture, CLR James, Constantine, Worrell, Eric Williams, Norman Manley, Grantley Adams, Derek Walcott, Vidia Naipaul, Allen Lewis, Rudi Capildeo and many others who also helped create the Caribbean identity that we have now largely squandered in pursuit of a lifestyle like that in other countries? who have giv

Yes indeed, we don't appreciate our heroes, they provide us with a rich history.

Sad fi true

@tc1 wrote:

He also influences the racist Mahatma Gandhi to return to India and form the freedom movement. Many Caribbean and African leaders were inspired by Garvey.

I am amaze that this post did not gather more traffic

He influenced many leaders in the Nation of Islam

@methodic wrote:

He influenced many leaders in the Nation of Islam

Yes indeed, the majority of blacks in the Nation of Islam were West Indian due to the Hon. Marcus Garvey. Due my days at college we invited his son to speak to the Caribbean union Society.