"Marcus Garvey and the New Partnership For Africa"

Marcus Garvey and the New Partnership For Africa's Development
Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero, has gained many well-deserved accolades for his contribution to the development of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the development of literary arts and the anti-colonial movement in his own ambivalent homeland. However, it is his role and vision for Africa's development that is the central contribution of his remarkable historical journey. History has recorded that some two years before his birth on August 17, 1887, the European powers had convened the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to partition the African continent among themselves. This brutal colonial exercise intensified the plunder of Africa's natural resources and in the process millions of its inhabitants were slaughtered.

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