17/08/2026
139 YEARS OF MARCUS GARVEY
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born 17 August 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. Today, 17 August 2026, marks 139 years since his birth. Garvey became one of the most influential figures in Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, founding the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and building a global movement around Black pride, self-determination, political consciousness and economic independence.
Garvey’s life has inspired other Black leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Kwame Toure, Jomo Kenyatta, Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, who said that Garvey was “the first man, on a mass scale, to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny … He gave us a sense of personhood, a sense of manhood, a sense of somebodiness.”
The redemption and emancipation of “Africans at home and abroad” was Marcus Garvey’s lifelong mission, and it is no wonder that a quote from one of his most famous speeches would be immortalized by another leader in the struggle for Black liberation, Bob Marley, in “Redemption Song”:
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.” B
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