Which African - African Diasporian Do you Most Admire and Why ?

Dada · (#1 (**permalink**))

Well just thinking on a positive note, to see from within this site what African do you most admire and the reasons why.

To avoid decending into anarchy and back biting, if you disagree with a posters choice rather slag them off just post your own. Will be interesting to read your answers. I'll place mine later.

N.B. · (#2 (**permalink**))

Haille Sellassie - the last King of Ethiopia for doing much for the orthordox church.....

safetyblitz · (#3 (**permalink**))

Haille Sellassie?!?!?!?!???!!!! How could you pick Haille Sellassie?

Kunjufu · (#4 (**permalink**))

I have a new found respect for Alicia Keys....her work in Africa, she appears to have her head screwed on tight.....and loves her culture...

Mo..later..

Mokele Mbembe · (#5 (**permalink**))

Danny Glover for president!

Incognito · (#6 (**permalink**))

Philip Emeagwali - embraces education and technology and still sees it for what it is, a tool for elevating his people as opposed to knowledge and credentials to point his finger at them.

Bea · (#7 (**permalink**))

I admire Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I also admire myself, yes me, because:
I, like Marcus Mosiah Garvey is created in the image of our Creator
I am protected and guided by our Ancestors
I am a descendant of a natrually pure, strong, resiliant, beautiful and fearless Race, the first Race, the Afrikan Race, therefore have the ability to work towards changing our position in the world to what it once was.

Bandele · (#8 (**permalink**))

I would go for Marcus Garvey as well he touched on everything and was truly a 3-dimensional Afrikan leader.

Kunjufu · (#9 (**permalink**))

Great is often an overused word when it comes to discribing our people..but for me THIS man is GREAT!!!! Not just a GREAT sport man..But a GREAT man....Period..

This is the man in the face of overwhelming opposition REFUSED to fight in Vietnam, They stripped him of everything for that decision... He was at the height of his powers, money making Popularity....and he gave it all up...For his faith and his beliefs and he did so when the Vietnam war was popular and everyone was for fighting in South East Asia...

He later demolition of George Foreman...[Rumble in the Jungle] is a master piece of psychology, mental strenght and sheer self belief the likes of which has never existed before or since....GREAT GREAT man!!!

Kunjufu · (#10 (**permalink**))

Again I've just got to co-sign this man HARD!!!!

Kwame Ture...Appatrentlt even in his last days..on his death bed..he was still organising for AFRICA and its people another GREAT MAN!!!

monk · (#11 (**permalink**))

oj simpson

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#12 (**permalink**))

Where to begin with Dr. Clarke? He is perhaps the greatest historian of the 20th century, and perhaps the greatest griot Afrika has ever (indirectly) birthed. He read and studied so much, that his credentials and accomplishments are too much to give justice here. I will say though that many of the other great scholars (Afrikan and others alike) owe their notoriety to Dr. Clarke.

If it were not for Dr. Clarke, the world would not know of Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, Martin Bernal, and many other brilliant scholars who courageously set history more properly in its truthful place for Afrikans. Dr. Clarke was a major proponent as to why others like Yosef ben-Yochannan, J.A. Rogers, Amos Wilson, Frances Cress Welsing, Tony Martin, and many others had the opportunity to bring their work to such large audiences of Afrikans for intellectual inquiry.

Basically all of us would not even be at our present levels of consciousness (where ever they may be) if it were not for Dr. John Henrik Clarke. He has gone on with the ancestors now, but his life's work will resound constructively for Afrikans for generations to come.

Agu Bu Oji · (#13 (**permalink**))

Would have to be Marcus Garvey, the guy did it in a time where things were more hostile than they are now and without half the technology we have at our dispense. Perhaps those two things have become problems in their own way but when I first read, 'Race First' I was shocked and some of he said was nothing short of prophetic.

"Look for me in the Whirlwind or the Storm. Look for Me all around you, for with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa, to aid you in the fight for liberty, freedom and life. If death has power, then count on Me in death to be the real marcus Garvey I would like to be.

If I may come in an earthquake, or as God would have Me, then be assured, that I shall never desert you and make your enemies triumph over you."

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

An ancestor for real.