“Ethiopia, thou Land of Our Fathers” - Anthem of the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2024
- The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and Amy Ashwood Garvey. The Pan-African organization enjoyed its greatest strength in the 1920s, and was influential prior to Garvey's deportation to Jamaica in 1927.
The song was written by Arnold Josiah Ford & Mignon Inniss Ford. The song was written by Arnold Josiah Ford & Mignon Inniss Ford. on December 21st 1919 the opening line “Ethiopia, thou land of our fathers” of the Universal Ethiopian Anthem was officially sung for the first time at a meeting held by Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at its Liberty Hall headquarters on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York. half a year later, in August 1920, the poem with the famous Ethiopianist opening line originally penned by the UNIA’s Arnold Josiah Ford and Benjamin Ebenezer Burrell, “amended from its 1918 original version, was declared the ‘anthem of the ‘Negro race’
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Absolutely great. Beautiful
The anthem’s stirring melody and empowering lyrics beautifully encapsulate the spirit of unity and resilience in the pursuit of justice and equality. Inspiring and uplifting. Thanks to the author: Benjamin J. Davis ❤🖤💚
Brilliant!!!
How come this Anthem less known in Africa?
Because even Europeans (so-called Whites) did their best to turn the African nations AGAINST Garvey❤🖤💚, which is why he was not allowed, to set foot on the Continent.
Garvey, like Qadaffi after him, was all about an empowered & UNIFIED Africa, controlled by actual Africans ! So Garvey was seen as a THREAT to America (J.Edgar Hoover's "Cointelpro" program, via the FBI) , as well as to International European Powers - especially after the "Berlin Conference" !
Garvey envisioned/imagined a "fantasy Africa", something like "Wakanda" or "Zamunda".
Outside of that, keep in mind that Africa is NOT ONE PLACE ! ! !🤦 Its a whole Continent, containing mostly miles of GRASSLAND, with 50 + independent, sovereign Nations, various cultures, religions, languages, tribes & ethnic groups. Noth Africa is seen as being mostly so-called Arab & "Berber" (Amazingh).
Africa was & still is being RAPED for its indigenous artifacts, resources such as, but not limited to: rubber, coltan, gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, rhodium, palladium, cocoa, ivory, healing plants, herbs & spices, exotic animals, melanin, etc.
All Africans dont speak ENGLISH, either.🤷
Because this was only in America
@@thepotato3275 what’s sad is that it’s not well known in America either
@@thepotato3275it was throughout the African Diaspora
@@1720-l8e Yes but mostly just America
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