REPUBLIC OF AFRICA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3134, 11 September 1922, Page 8

REPUBLIC OF AFRICA.

Severa.l thousand 1 wildly excited negroes assembled at -New York lately and loudly cheered the plea of Marcus Garvoy, "provisional President of the Republic of Africa."' that the colored men of North America should migrate and form a Republic, in the land of their ancestors. Garvey, as 1 head 1 of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, recently ran foul of the American postal authorities in connection with the sale of shares in (he "Black Star Line," which planned to buy a, fleet of ships to transport America's colored population overseas. He appeared rec'ontly in "presidential!" robes of violet, red. and green, and warned his audience that the United States could never lie a. black man's country, because Edward Clarke, the imperial' wizard of the dreaded Kukluxkla.n, personally informed him that America was for the white man only. With but fifteen million negroes opposed to ninety million whites Garvey declared it would be useless to fight against the decision of the klan. which he described 1 as the "invisible government" of the I'nitcd Stales, and. amid roans of approval, shouted, if blacks' could not have America they must have Africa. "We wish to be president, congressmen, senators, governors, mayors." Garvey said, and his audience, agreed that, despite tile professed equality of all men here, they had no chance of realising their ambitions in the United States. The only way to solve the problem. Convey concluded, was for the negro to create a government of his own in Africa, and his hope and ]>rayer was to see the great black race in full mastery of that Continent. '