(HISTORY AND MEMORY): SPOTLIGHT ON « MOSA MARCUS GARVEY »!

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« MOSA MARCUS GARVEY » WAS A JAMAICAN SOCIAL REFORMER WHO PREDICTED IN HIS  OWN WORDS:( » LOOK TO AFRICA, A KING WILL BE CROWNED AND THE DAY OF DELIVRANCE IS NEAR »)!IN (1930), « HAILE TAFARI SELASSIE » WAS CROWNED IN « ETHIOPIA » AND THE RASTRAFARIAN MOVEMENT STARTED IN « JAMAICA »! MEANWHILE, « MARCUS GARVEY » CREATED THE BLACK MOVEMENT IMPROVEMENT(BACK TO AFRICA WITH  HIS BLACK STARLINER)  AND HAD MILLION OF FOLLOWERS IN (USA) AND THE CARIBBEAN!IN THE SAME TREND, SOMEBODY ASKED « MARCUS GARVEY » ONE DAY, WHO WAS BORN A JAMAICAN IF HE WAS AN AFRICAN OR A JAMAICAN?AND HE RESPONDED IN RETURN IN HIS OWN WORDS:( » I WILL NOT GIVE UP A CONTINENT FOR AN ISLAND »)! DOWN LINE, « MOSA MARCUS GARVEY » DIED IN (1940) WITHOUT SETING HIS FOOT IN AFRICA! HIS MOTTO AND WORDS STILL LINGER DEEP IN THE MINDS INTERNATIONALLY:(« AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS AND OUR DIGNITY AT HOME AND ABROAD »).

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