Malcolm X Shares Insightful Words About the Back to Africa Movement

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Malcolm X Shares Insightful Words About the Back to Africa Movement

And they still ring true today!

During his lifetime, Malcolm X visited Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania. While living in West Africa for six months after leaving the Nation of Islam, Brother Malcolm formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity. While on the Continent, he also unsuccessfully lobbied the United Nations to investigate the United States for violating the human rights of Black people.

Malcolm X’s parents had been members of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, more popularly known simply as the Back to Africa Movement. His parent’s involvement with and intention toward the Mother Continent undoubtedly had a strong and lasting effect on a young Malcolm. While not a member of Garvey’s movement himself, from a political perspective Malcolm X believed that Black people in America needed to form close bonds to our ancestral homeland in order to achieve the progress being fought for in the U.S.

… the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold — long-range and short-range. I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problems. Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa — which means restoring our common bond — will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right on this continent. And at the same time this will give incentive to many of our people to also visit and even migrate physically back to Africa, and those who stay here can help those who go back and those who go back can help those who stay here.

No one could have said this any better. And, trust me, I’ve tried.

CHOSSA (Children of Stolen & Sold Africans) need to reconnect with who we are to ourselves, to each other and to this world as African-descended people. Such is critical to our global progress and advancement wherever we may be. This doesn’t mean we should all pack up and move, but it does mean that we need to center ourselves as a people and prioritize support for one another. No, we are not a monolith, but we do have the same ancestral homeland, which is Africa, and the same enemy, which is White supremacy and all the evils it has unleashed on us.

Focusing on Africa in the ways Malcolm X was clear in advocating doesn’t mean one has to give up their current citizenship, abandon one’s push for justice in the land of her birth, nor does it require forfeiting one’s portion of reparations (should they ever come). These are all things people have expressed genuine concerns about whenever I have these conversations. But, as Brother Malcolm said, a focus on Africa lends to the “spiritual strength” we need to advance on all of these fronts.

What do you think?