BLACK UNITY Winter 2013
In the name of the father?
A recent trip to Birmingham by Dr Julius
Garvey, son of Marcus Garvey has been a hot
topic of conversation in the Black community,
although not for the reasons hoped by the
organisers; Nicole Andrews reports.
Unite as a people
In October, Dr Julius Garvey, who is based in New York,
visited the UK for a speaking tour. He came to Birmingham and
spoke at the University of Birmingham, the Drum and also the New Testament Church
of God. OBU had the opportunity to interview Dr Garvey where he talked about the
pressures of being Marcus Garvey’s son growing up. He also spoke of the continuing
neo-colonialism in the African Diaspora and argued that we have to ‘unite as a people
around the fact that we are African people, we have a unique history, unique culture
and unique beliefs’. His talk at the University was generally well received but
controversy was soon to follow based on his choice of wife.
White wife
Julius Garvey was thrown out of the Universal Negro Improvement Association for
marrying a White woman. As anyone familiar with his father’s work, will know, Garvey
was against mixing with different groups and saw it as ‘race suicide’. He said ‘for a
Negro man to marry someone who does not look like his mother or is not a part of his
race is an insult to his mother, nature and God, who made his father’. ‘Africa for the
Africans’ was a cry for the unity of Black people and for Garvey that unity was put in
danger by marrying outside of the Black community.
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The decision of his son Julius to marry a White woman has been seen by some as a
rejection of his father’s legacy and ultimately a betrayal. This all came to a head at an
event in Birmingham where Julius Garvey was repeatedly questioned about his White
wife which resulted in very heated debate which has even been reported in Jamaican
media.
Caribbean legacy
Julius Garvey is settled in New York and America has its own legacy of Black activism,
connected to the Civil Rights Movement.
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Start your marnin’ with miracle
Moringa! by Tamar ‘Kush’ Francis.
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Heri Za Kwanzaa! Happy
Kwanzaa! by Tamar ‘Kush’ Francis
Many of us have heard of Kwanzaa,
but are unsure of what it is. Some
The Moringa Oleifera plant is of African origin and had been given the name ‘miracle plant’ or
common beliefs is that it is ‘Rasta
Ready to hear about all the wonderful benefits?
phrase “matunda ya kwanza” which
Christmas’, or that it is religion based,
‘tree of life’. It has been in Jamaica since 1817 and can now be found world wide, including India, the
Philippines and in South and Central America. Every part of the tree can be used, from the leaves to both of which are untrue.
the small and large pods, both of which can be eaten like nuts. It can be purchased as a supplement
to be taken daily or in powder form which can be added to food and drink.
The name Kwanzaa is derived from the
Right, here goes: Per gram, Moringa has seven times more vitamin C than oranges, four times more
vitamin A than carrots, four times more calcium than milk and twice as much protein as milk. It has
three times more iron than almonds, three times more vitamin C than spinach and three times the
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