Summary
Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and Africa.
Producer: Beth O'Dea.
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| 0:46.6 | 4. No one remember |
| 0:54.4 | remember whole makos garvee. |
| 0:57.4 | Hello my guest today is the playwright Kwame Kuehameh Quayama |
| 1:01.6 | and he's been interested in our subject today since he first heard |
| 1:05.1 | that song on the radio at the age of 19. |
| 1:10.3 | No one remember Holmachus Garvey. That was burning spear. |
| 1:17.0 | Quame, tell us when you first heard that and the effect that it had on you. |
| 1:24.0 | This record was introduced to me by my cousin saying, |
| 1:26.8 | you need to know who Marcus Garvey is. |
| 1:30.0 | And at first, I was a bit like, okay, yeah, and then I began to read about him and to understand that here was a man at the turn of the 20th century who was doing things that if Barack Obama did at the |
| 1:45.5 | beginning the 21st would seem magnificent and I became quite enthralled by him. |
| 1:50.3 | Your parents were born in Grenada. |
| 1:52.8 | Grenada. |
| 1:53.8 | Would you have meant much to them? |
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