Biography on Amy Garvey by Professor Tony Martin
29th November 2006
It seems fitting that Ghana, once ruled by the inspirational Pan Africanist Kwame Nkrumah, will today host the launch of a biography on Amy Ashwood Garvey, first wife of the great black leader, Marcus Garvey.
Authored by Tony Martin, a professor of African Studies in
The book, he said, is the result of his extensive research on the life and time of Amy Ashwood Garvey, a woman he describes as one of the remarkable black female figures in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) , The most successful Pan African movement and an association she co-founded with Marcus Garvey in
What is there to rejoice about says African led campaign group
Even before Tony Blair issued his statement of regret for slavery in Parliament today, campaign groups yesterday denounced the Prime Minister's hollow apology and called for a Parliamentary Commission on slavery.
In a statement to be read to Parliament today, the Prime Minister will say:
“It’s hard to believe that what would now be a crime against humanity was legal at the time…I believe that the bicentenary offers us a chance…to express our deep sorrow that it ever happened, that it could ever have happened and to rejoice at the different and better times we live in today.”
But campaign groups including African led organisation Rendezvous of Victory, immediately rounded on Tony Blair and denounced the apology. Kofi Mawuli Klu, Joint Co-ordinator of Rendezvous of Victory, rejected Tony Blair’s use of the term: “legal” in respect of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, calling it: “A falsification of the truth.” Read More >>
It's about time the issue was debated more openly
Rendezvous of Victory, a grassroots organisation which promotes education on the legacies of enslavement has welcomed the Daily Mail’s anti slavery apology campaign, saying it will help publicise the issue and encourage debate.
Right wing newspapers Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard are opposed to the government’s plans to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade in 2007, labelling the idea of an apology as “political correctness.”
In an attempt to belittle the significance of 2007 the newspapers launched a campaign called: Chain Mail designed to encourage hostility to the commemorations and the idea of an apology.
But the move was welcomed by Kofi Mawuli Klu, Joint Co-ordinator of Rendezvous of Victory, a grassroots organisation that promotes education and understanding of the legacies of enslavement and who has for the last few years pressurised the government into taking the issue seriously. Read More >>
