Marcus Garvey “Africa For the Africans” By: Quentin Kelly

About Him Born in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica Born on August 17th, 1887 Died on June 10th, 1940 Youngest of 11 children Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League in Jamaica Very involved in the Pan-Africa movements Was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator First profession was a printer and at 18 was the youngest foreman printer in Jamaica

3 T’s Theme: The colonization of Africa. He is trying to colonize Africa and make all the black people in the West Indies and America move to Africa making it a all black country just like Europe is all white. Tone: Angry, serious, aspiration Technique: uses satire to sow the weakness and ridicule the African Americans “intellectuals” who use poor excuses on why colonizing Africa is a bad idea. He shows that them coming to Africa will not be beneficial because them being identified with the new program will not in anyway help them because they think they are on higher ground than the rest of the African Americans which will bring the superiority infliction back upon them. Uses tone too show his attitude with non believers and seriousness about going to Africa.

Importance During the Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association which was very influential during the Harlem Renaissance. This organization brought African Americans all over Jamaica and America together to try and break free from the racial and class superiority infliction upon them. In “Africa for the Africans” he expressed his ideas on building a Negro Empire in Africa by moving all the Negroes everywhere back to Africa. Doing this would make it easy to escape the discrimination and achieve the rights that African Americans are entitled too. His organization was organized for the absolute purpose of bettering their condition, industrially, commercially, socially, religiously and politically. He was a very powerful writer and expressed the Negros need of equal rights in his writings.