Brothers and Strangers
Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place. In the 1920s, Marcus Garveyaconvinced that freedom from oppression was not possible for blacks in the Americasaled the last great African American emigrationist movement. His U.S.-based Universal Negro Improvement Association worked with the Liberian government to create a homeland for African Americans. Ibrahim Sundiata explores the paradox at the core of this project: Liberia, the chosen destination, was itself racked by class and ethnic divisions andalike other nations in colonial Africaamarred by labor abuse. In an account based on extensive archival research, including work in the Liberian National Archives, Sundiata explains how Garveyas plan collapsed when faced with opposition from the Liberian elite, opposition that belied his vision of a unified Black World. In 1930 the League of Nations investigated labor conditions and, damningly, the United States, land of lynching and Jim Crow, accused Liberia of promoting aconditions analogous to slavery.a Subsequently various plans were put forward for a League Mandate or an American administration to put down slavery and amodernizea the country. Threatened with a loss of its independence, the Liberian government turned to its abrothers beyond the seaa for support. A varied group of white and black anti-imperialists, among them W. E. B. Du Bois, took up the countryas cause. In revealing the struggle of conscience that bedeviled many in the black world in the past, Sundiata casts light on a human rights predicament which, he points out, continues in twenty-first-century African nations as disparate as Sudan, Mauritania, and the Ivory Coast.A decree of July 15, 1918, authorized a two-year reengagement of workers who had completed their contracts.8 But early ... which allowed him to repair guns for the Grebo (he had married a Grebo woman in 1902) and make a healthy profit.
| Title | : | Brothers and Strangers |
| Author | : | Ibrahim Sundiata |
| Publisher | : | Duke University Press - 2004-01-13 |
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