Return to Africa

Return to Africa

In the following paper, I am going to analyze this article entitled Return to Africa by Marcus Garvey. I will be using my own opinionated judgment to interpret this article.

In the first section of the article that begins with, Fellow Men of the Negro Race, Greeting. States that for four years the Universal Negro Improvement Association has been entertaining the idea of Africa for the Africans, meaning that black people in the western hemisphere particularly those living in the United States should leave and build a great nation in Africa. This thinking had to be brought on by brutal racist acts taking place at the time, with lynching, and the Jim Crow laws of the south. Not only that, but a black person many times was not even considered to be as a human. How could he possibly believe that he will ever be able to think of himself as equal, to a white man.

Continuing with the first section Marcus Garvey criticizes the so-called intellectual Negroes, basically the leaders or voice of the black people. He says that they have been misguiding the Negro people to believe that they were not interested in the migration to Africa. He even calls the intellectuals brainless for saying that it was not necessary for black people to seek a nation of their own, and suggesting the arguments against Africa. Such as Africa fever, African bad climate, African mosquitoes, and African salvages. The leaders are basically trying to say that the black people of the United States can not survive in Africa. I think that Garvey is right to criticize the black leaders, because there is no possible way of knowing that the black people of the United States could not survive in Africa.

In the second section of the article entitled A "Program" at last? Garvey states that he now thinks that the Negro people now see the idea of moving to Africa as not just a fairy tale, but as a realistic idea. That it can be done and realized if the entire race cooperates. Due to the hard work of t Universal Negro Improvement Association. He also discusses the fact that since the black people have started to really consider this idea, that some of the black leaders that opposed this idea at first, have started to climb on board. They are even trying