Books like The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey: Africa for the Africans

Realized I had awakened when I heard someone mention "the bible" and had to focus my mind on knowing they were not referring to The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. How much energy has been put into concealing the contents of this book? Distracting us from it? Distorting its contents? Why? Could the answers be, in my opinion, the day I found Marcus Garvey was the day I found myself.This edition is from the New Marcus Garvey Library. When I joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which was founded by Garvey I received a copy of the UNIA constitution. After being directed to study the constitution along with Race First by Dr. Tony Martin and the P&O an awareness began to seep in: anyone who is truly free would find freedom so essential to life they would want everyone to have it.Reading the P&O was a step on a journey of self. There are ideas in this book which go beyond "Africa for the Africans." It is not only a compilation of extracts from Garvey's speeches and weekly essays published in the Negro World Newspaper, it is also a combination of two volumes edited separately by Garvey's second wife Amy Jacques Garvey. The book is nicely summed up with Garvey's seminal essay African Fundamentalism, which in and of itself reveals the mind of a man who so impressed Bob Marley that he immortalized a quote from Garvey in the lyric:Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.