Marcus Garvey's Worldview .

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1MARCUS GARVEY'S WORLDVIEW
Marcus Garvey was called the Black Moses as he was a charismatic black leader who
organized the first and most important American black nationalist movement from 1919 to 1926.
His worldview was based on the doctrine of racial purity which can be perceived through his
slogan ‘Africa for the Africans’ (Pierce 2015). The primary mission of his black led political
movement were to achieve political and economic independence of the Africans and black
control in the religious, cultural and educational organizations. His worldview connected the
destinies of the African diasporas as well as Africa.
The chief influence of Garveyism is the issue of exploitation of the Africans in their own
country by the European colonialists as well as in the other arts of the world. The depravity,
corruption and decadence that the negro people had been suffering at that time, had completely
shaken Marcus Garvey. Moreover, his stay in the London for study, the racial gap was more
trapping his perception about the sufferings of the black people in Europe. Atlantic Slave Trade
that has an important part in the African history, moved him to think about ending this
mistreatment of the Africans in all over the world. To Wintz (2015), in his worldview, the
African was the central to the identity of the diasporic blacks especially the African Americans.
Therefore, they must not remain to be the inferior and second-class citizens in their own
homeland but restore their Africa from the other occupiers. This view manipulated thousands of
Africans in the European country and created path for the mass movement.
Marcus Garvey’s worldview was mainly racial as he was focused on the movement of the
blacks of Africa. This perception, ideology and speeches are seen to have flavors of racism.
Despite the fact that he himself faced racist comments or treatment many times, he thought
racism will be the best way to revive the Africa spirit among his followers (Lewis 2018). He
founded the association named Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), that chiefly