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Marcus Garvey’s Economic Philosophy Has a Capitalism Problem

NOVANEWS By: Ajamu Nangwaya Garveyites must place the question of the destruction of capitalism at the center of their organizing program for African liberation. The controversy surrounding the May 19 unveiling of a bust of Jamaica’s first national hero and Pan-Africanist Marcus Mosiah Garvey on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has led some Garveyites and Pan-Africanists to call for the study and use of his philosophy in the service of African liberation. OPINION:Peter Tosh: Resistance Fighter Against Racism and Apartheid Garveyites are up in arms about the Raymond Watson’s created bust of Garvey that bears no resemblance to the most common photographic (re)presentations of this exponent of African Nationalism and racial uplift. Retired UWI professo...