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CLAIM YOUR AFRICAN IDENTITY For the subjugation of Africa to succeed, the imperialists redefined what it meant to be African. Europeans wiped knowledge of our continent clean, denying many the opportunity to learn about the civilisations that held their own from Mali to the East African coast. On the 85th anniversary of Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey's death at the age of 52, we aim to illustrate what reclaiming Africanness would mean by reposting this clip featuring psychologist Amos Wilson (1941-95). In it, he pointed to an African-centred school in the US bearing Garvey’s name, where kindergarten students (5-year-olds) read sixth-grade material (for 11-year-olds). Garvey, who inspired Wilson, died on 10 June 1940 in London following multiple strokes. He became one of the most influential Pan-Africanists to have ever lived, inspiring some of our beloved Pan-Africanist leaders, such as Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72) and Malcolm X (1925-65), whose parents were Garveyites. Garvey (1887-1940) was a political activist, publisher, journalist and orator. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), a Pan-Africanist organisation that counted millions of members during Garvey’s life and branches in many countries. However, his dedication to African liberation during the Jim Crow era of racially discriminatory laws in the US and amidst the surge in interest in communism following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution put the arrow on his back. Soon-to-be FBI Director J Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) aimed to destroy Garvey's mass movement by sending an undercover agent to infiltrate the UNIA-ACL. The sting operation led to Garvey serving jail time and sunk hopes of using his Black Star Line steamship to transport Africans in the US back to their ancestral home. Despite this, Garvey's legacy endures as a towering symbol of African pride, unity and resistance. Although he faced relentless opposition and persecution, his vision of a free and self-determined Africa inspired generations of leaders and movements worldwide.

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A group of Rastafarians on Wednesday gathered in downtown Montego Bay, St James, to publicly express solidarity with Ibrahim Traoré, the transitional president of Burkina Faso. Read more: https://t.co/8GZWfz4atT #GLNRToday