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Continued from page 14 – The Marcus-Garvey Pan-
African Institute /University (MPAI / MPAU) - A Work in
Progress
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• MPAU Strategic Plan 200-2014-Final Version
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Garvey Pan-African University
their betterment. The African elites have not played the
role as leaders of the African people in their socioeconomic
transformation. Rather they have been
operating a post-colonial State system. This has
resulted in a peculiar situation whereby the knowledge
of the principles and patterns of African civilisation
have remained with ordinary, ‘uncertificated’ men and
women, especially those in rural areas. Historically,
intellectuals of any civilisation have always been the
voices of that civilisation to the rest of the world.
But the tragedy of Africa, after conquest by the West, is
that her intellectuals, by and large, have absconded and
abdicated their role as developers, minstrels and
trumpeters of African civilisation resulting in African
civilisation stagnating.
What remained alive in the minds of languages of the
overwhelming majority of Africans remained
undeveloped because the ‘uncertificated Africans’ were
denied respect and opportunities for access to new
forms of knowledge. Consequently, they could not sing
out, articulate and develop the unique patterns of
African civilisation in a rapidly changing world. The
challenge now is to move forward on a new beginning
in which the Pan-Afrikan University plays a
galvanising role in linking the African intellectuals to
the African people who exist in their ‘Sites of
Knowledge and Wisdom’ so that both can create a new
relationship that can enable them to reconstruct a new
Africa.
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The Impact of Marcus Garvey
By John Henrik Clarke
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940 the role of the British
Empire was already being challenged by India and the
rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus
Garvey's avocation of African redemption and
the restoration of the African state's sovereign political
entity in world affairs was still a dream without
fulfillment.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the
United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been
up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus
Garvey's prophesy about the European scramble to
maintain dominance over the whole world was now a
reality. The people of Africa and Asia had joined in this
conflict but with different hopes, different dreams and
many misgivings. Africans throughout the colonial world
were mounting campaigns against this system which had
robbed them of their nation-ness and their basic humanness.
The discovery and the reconsideration of the
teachings of the honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey were
being rediscovered and reconsidered by a large number of
African people as this world conflict deepened.
In 1945, when World War II was drawing to a close the
5th Pan-African Congress was called in Manchester,
England. Some of the conventioneers were: George
Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Dubois, Nnamdi
Azikiwe of Nigeria, and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya. Up to
this time the previous Pan- African Congresses had mainly
called for improvements in the educational status of the
Africans in the colonies so that they would be prepared for
self-rule when independence eventually came.
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