The Pan-Africanists “aimed to provide a forum for conversation and action among people of the African descent across cultures”; and Garvey "proposed a solution to a racial conflict to deal with the imperialist threat by returning to Africa" (Davis 106,109). Garvey believed that “Negroes were robbed of their history” (Garvey 100) as seen in the European invention of a "barbaric Negro" (Cesaire 53). All the negative stereotypes and ideologies about Africa were European inventions to keep Blacks under oppression. Garvey wanted to spread the ideas of going back to Africa because of the history lost by being in America, and the non-accreditation towards Black history that was apparent in Africa. He used his programs to “eloquently articulate Africa as the birthplace of Kings” (Davis 110). Because of his movement and ideas of self-reliance, racial pride and going back to Africa, other movements such as the Negritude, Negrismo, and Harlem Renaissance were formed (Davis
The Pan-Africanists “aimed to provide a forum for conversation and action among people of the African descent across cultures”; and Garvey "proposed a solution to a racial conflict to deal with the imperialist threat by returning to Africa" (Davis 106,109). Garvey believed that “Negroes were robbed of their history” (Garvey 100) as seen in the European invention of a "barbaric Negro" (Cesaire 53). All the negative stereotypes and ideologies about Africa were European inventions to keep Blacks under oppression. Garvey wanted to spread the ideas of going back to Africa because of the history lost by being in America, and the non-accreditation towards Black history that was apparent in Africa. He used his programs to “eloquently articulate Africa as the birthplace of Kings” (Davis 110). Because of his movement and ideas of self-reliance, racial pride and going back to Africa, other movements such as the Negritude, Negrismo, and Harlem Renaissance were formed (Davis