Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy (New Marcus Garvey Library)

Garvey, Marcus,Martin, Tony

ISBN 10: 0912469188 / ISBN 13: 9780912469188

Published by Majority Pr, 1986

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Some markings and underlining throughout.

Seller Inventory # mon0003885218

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy (New Marcus Garvey Library)
• Publisher: Majority Pr
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912469188
• ISBN 13: 9780912469188
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In September 1937, three years before his death, Marcus Garvey assembled a small group of his most trusted organizers. For almost a quarter of a century he had led the Universal Negro Improvement Association, at its peak the largest international mass movement in the history of African peoples. Now he wanted to pass on the lessons he had learned, to the group best suited to carry the struggle forward. For one month he instructed this elite student body, twevle hours a day, seven days a week. The sessions were secret and much of the instruction was not written down. The students did, however receive written copies of twenty-two lessons, which Garvey called the Course of African Philosophy. This fascinating distillation of a great leader's experience is published here for the first time.

About the Author

The course of African Philosophy is a unique document. With the exception of his poetical works, it is the closest thing to a book that Marcus Garvey ever wrote. It represents, as it were the last political will and testament of a man who stands without equal in the history of the worldwide mobilization of African peoples. For Marcus Garvey did not merely organize the most massive Black movement in the history of the United States of America. He also organized the largest and most successful movement among African people in the Caribbean.