Questions and Answers - The Life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey

This book takes shape around images and ideas that are centered within the vortex of the black experience, a nitty-gritty ghetto experience resulting in contradictory emotions, anguish, hope, love, despair, happiness, faith, the lack of faith, and dreams: stubbornly holding on to an elusive romantic belief that the people of this world should not be insensitive to the dictates of injustice, but are well attuned to the voice of humanity. Surely, Marcus Garvey was 'The Father of African Nationalism.'

Leonard Morris came to the United States of America in 1968 and was astonished to hear about the marvelous work Marcus Garvey had done to bring pride to Black People. He was inspired by Marcus Garvey's dreams and his leadership of The Universal Negro Improvement Association. Leonard Morris states that this vision which Marcus Garvey had, overwhelms him as he learns more of the depth of this man who had the capacity to think so wisely for the future of the Black man. This was a man of great vision and was surely blessed by God. As a Jamaican artist, he is pleased to state that he has done eighty-five paintings in oil on Marcus Garvey's life story. They were exhibited at The Center for Art and Culture Bedford-Stuyvesant Inc. New York, in 1989, The Federal Building- Jacob Jarvis, New York, in 1980, The Jamaica Progressive League, New York 1976 and The Jamaican Consulate, New York in 1996. They were well received by the public. Leonard Morris would like to invite the readers of this book to take an indepth look at Marcus Garvey's philosophy. He asks the readers to study this philosophy with a mind free of prejudice, and with a righteous desire to find the truth and to help with the friendly and peaceful solutions of a grave world problem. This indeed will be for the betterment of human kind.