ALKEBU-LAN Express Izwe lethu I Afrika!

Vol. 3, issue 6 (GARVEY Edition)

otep (peace) and Akwaaba (welcome)

H to the sixth issue of volume 3 of

Alkebu-Lan (Afrika) Express. Due to
sheer overload the editorial team were not
and abetted by racist state legislatures, a
conniving judiciary and an indifferent federal
government, effectively returning the African-
American population to the brink of slavery.
able to bring out a Lawrence edition (April),
so we apologise for that. In the Caribbean, despite the relative
absence of overtly racist laws such as
However, we hope you have been well in obtained in the United States, the British
mind, body and spirit. So much has colonizers nevertheless successfully
happened since the last edition it has difficult prevented over ninety percent of its
to establish a focus for this issue; still, focus Caribbean subjects from voting. Among the
we will and we trust you will enjoy this issue few voters, a disproportionate number was
of Alkebu-Lan Express. White. Similar distressing situations existed
in other areas of African populations, such as
“Izwe lethu I Afrika!” “Afrika is our land!” – Brazil and in areas of minor African
Eds. settlements, such as Europe and Canada.
Into this situation Garvey forcefully injected
In this edition of Alkebu-Lan Express: himself with a bold plan to gather up an
embattled people, reverse their downward
slide and point them on the way forward to
• Your Afrikan Name freedom, justice, equality and power.
• The legacy of Marcus Garvey
Garvey's main goals can be summarised as
• Hot Links follows - first, he sought to build confidence
in self. Black (African) people, he taught,
• The struggle continues
must write their own history, criticize their
own literature, build and lead their own
organisations and worship a God that looked
like them. Secondly, the goal of self reliance,
Your Afrikan Name especially in the area of economic activity; his
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“Without our true names we have no and other ventures were efforts in that
connection to our true identity.” (Source: direction. Thirdly, Garvey stressed, was
http://www.swagga.com/name.htm) nationhood or political self-determination.
He saw a strong Africa as crucial in this
Male: JAWARA (Ja-wa-ra) – Peace Loving regard, since its ancestral significance and
Female: JENDAYI (Jen-die-ee) – Give economic resources made it a potential
thanks anchor for Pan-African struggle.

Garvey's impact as one African on Africans

The Legacy of Marcus Garvey worldwide was (and arguably still is) without
By (Mwalimu) Tony Martin (Edited by AE) parallel. Approximately twelve hundred
branches of the UNIA in over forty countries
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica's first speak for itself. His impact on succeeding
national hero was born in St. Ann's Bay on generations has also been immense, in spite
August 17, 1887 CE and died in England on of a concerted mainstream effort first to
June 10, 1940 CE after building the most expunge him from the pages of history and
successful Pan-African government of all secondly, when the effort failed, to distort his
time. Garvey organized the Universal Negro record. /continued on page 2
Improvement Association and African
Communities League in 1914 at a time when Advertisement
the future of the African World looked grim. Educational tour from the UK to Kemet (Ancient
Egypt) from August 6th to 15th 2006 CE. Tour
For Africans in America, the civil rights gains leader Prof. Manu Ampim (US).
of the post-Civil War period had been wiped
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out by a lethal cocktail of the Klu Klux Klan
and similar groups’ murder and terror, aided
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Many African leaders in succeeding decades
have expressly acknowledged their debt to
Garvey's influence. They include Osagyefo
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Nnamdi Azikiwe
of Nigeria and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya.
Modified versions of Garvey's red, black and
green flag can be seen in the national flag of
Kenya and the flag of the African National
Congress in South Africa. The strong
influence of Garveyism on the ANC of the
1920's and '30s continued in the ANC Youth
League of the 1940s and resides today in the
Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (South
Africa).
Garvey's influence on Black America can be
traced through a variety of major
organizations and leaders. Elijah Muhammad
was a member of the UNIA in Detroit and his
Nation of Islam bore many obvious
similarities to Garvey's organization. The
parents of Malcolm X were both local UNIA
leaders in Omaha, Milwaukee and Lansing
Michigan. Garvey himself visited the home of
Malcolm's parents on more than one
occasion. Carlos Cooks of the African
Nationalist Pioneer Movement, former
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and ex-
congressman Charles Diggs are among the
post-Garvey leaders who emerged out of a
Garvey background. The entire Black Power
Movement of the 1960's and 70's was
permeated with Garveyite symbols and ideas.
Garvey's influence can be traced also in non-
African figures, particularly Ho Chi Minh of
Viet Nam, an ardent support of UNIA during
his New York sojourn in his younger days.
The African World since Garvey has
accomplished much, thanks to the efforts of
Garvey and others who labored long and
often died before hope loomed on the
horizon. Political independence has been
achieved even in areas of most tenacious
colonialism, such as Azania (South Africa),
Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia.
Yet, much remains to be done, particularly in
terms of economic and social independence.
Garvey's efforts to mobilize technical and
financial support scattered Africans for
Africa's regeneration still remains a viable
goal. However Africans at “home and
abroad” may yet fulfill Garvey's 1913
prophesy, that out of this area may come the
instruments for uniting and empowering a
scattered and embattled race.
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The struggle continues
By Kobi
The murder of Brotha Stephen Lawrence at a
bus stop in Eltham, South London in April
1993 CE, was one of several race-related
deaths in late eighties and early nineties.
However, thanks to the efforts (primarily) of
his parents, Doreen and Neville Lawrence,
the British regime was forced to sit up, take
note and act, which resulted in an inquiry, a
report and new legislation that amended the
race relations act.
As a result, many people from ‘ghetto’ to
government level began to believe that we
were on the cusp on a new era of
multiculturalism, equality, diversity and social
inclusion. Indeed, many strides have been
made…strategically! What I mean is that, a
whole heap of reports, strategies, compacts,
policies, equality schemes have been drafted,
employees across all sectors (especially in
the public and private sector) have been to
the ‘diversity training course’ or the ‘cultural
awareness seminar’, but what is practically
happening on the ground?
Birmingham (and to a lesser extent Leicester)
is regularly lauded as becoming ‘majority
Black cities’ within the next 10-15 years?
However, if people are still being
discriminated against in employment,
education and housing opportunities, then
what does it matter? If people feel that
‘foreigners’ have come here to take ‘their’
jobs, ‘their’ houses and ‘their’ women, then
what does it matter? Well, after the recent
butchering of 18 year old Brotha Anthony
Walker in Liverpool, left dead in a Liverpool
park with an axe lodged in his head, then it
proves (if proof were ever needed) that the
social and economic mix of discrimination
and displacement (inequality) will lead to a
fiery cycle of social fragmentation, exclusion,
tension, retribution and token reconciliation.
The lesson from Brotha Anthony Walker’s
death at the hands of overt racists for
Afrikans in Britain is that, the struggle
continues. The question is, are we prepared
to continue the struggle?
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