Historical Summary of Garveytown

The idea for Garveytown came out of the workshop at the global African congress (GAC) in Barbados in 2002. Garveytown was established on the ground in Ghana 2003. We acquired 300 acres of land in January 2004. The purpose of The Garveytown Project is to help diaspora Africans reintegrate into the African society. Garveytown aims to create the extended family structure that allows African society to function. The Garveytown Project also aims to create economic opportunities for returning Diaspora African and Africans locally to the project to create balance and order.

The Marcus Garvey preparatory school was established in 2008.The aim of the school is to provide a standard of education that is higher than anything in villages throughout Ghana and to rival the best schools in Ghana. The Marcus Garvey preparatory school also aims to teach history of African people in the diaspora as well as the continent.  The school also aims to create a vanguard that will promote the ideas of The Garveytown Project throughout through the continent of Africa.

“The so-called Trans-Atlantic “slave trade” was not trade but was in fact the Maangamizi, (The grate suffering) which is the loss of countless lives, families, cultures, language histories, and self-identity, theft of land and resources, and human possibilities. The Maangamizi was morally wrong and a crime against humanity.”

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The prime objective

The prime objective of the Garveytown project is to create maintain,

and defend a self sustaining Pan African community

PURPOSE:

The purpose of the Garveytown project is to mobilize, educate, and organize the global African community to achieve Reparations, which includes restitution.  Our responsibility is to bring to justice the criminals responsible for the Maangamizi, which is the loss of countless lives, families, cultures, histories, and self-identity, theft of land and resources, and human possibilities that continues up to present day.

REPARATIONS:

Reparation is the process of self-repair, healing, and restoring of a people, injured because their group identity, and the violation of their fundamental human rights by individuals, corporations, religious and other institutions, governments and other entities.  The groups that has been injured have the right to obtain from individuals, corporations, religious or other institutions, governments, and other entities responsible for the injuries, whatever they determine is necessary to repair and heal themselves.  

Reparation is developing into a global Pan African movement in Africa the Americas North and South the Caribbean and in Europe and wherever our people are on planet earth. Where ever we are as Africans we have a sacred duty to fight for Reparation for damage done by Europeans, Jews, Arabs and others in their genocidal campaigns of invasion conquest, genocidal wars of occupation, resulting in wholesale slaughter, rape, theft, death and destruction of life and property and our way of life resulting in the Maangamizi/slavery, the greatest known acts of terrorism and genocide known to man.

SELF REPAIR IS THE FIRST STEP

TOWARDS REPARATION

“Before we can demand Reparation from anyone we must first start with self. Self-repair is the first leg of a long journey towards reparation. Most of our people when we hear the word reparation we think of money. Yes, a vast sum of money to be counted in the trillions is owed to us for all the unpaid work to build America and Europe. The whole white race becomes rich out of the rape and plunder of our lives, land and resources. Yet when we understand what Reparation is, money is not even one percent of what reparation is about. Reparation is mostly about making repairs, self made repairs on ourselves, mental repairs, psychological repairs, cultural repairs, organizational repairs, social repairs, institutional repairs, technological repairs, economic repairs, political repairs, educational repairs, repairs of every type that we need in order to recreate and sustain black societies, for the sad truth is that five centuries of holocaust have made our society brittle and unviable and as the great Marcus Garvey warned over 50 years ago if we continue as we are, we are heading for extinction.  

More important than any monies to be received, more fundamental than any lands to be recovered is the opportunity the reparations campaign offers us for the rehabilitation of Black people by Black people for Black people. Opportunities for the rehabilitation of our minds, our material conditions, our collective reputations, our cultures, our memories, and our self respect, our religious and political traditions and our family institution, but first and foremost for the rehabilitation of our minds.”  Chinweizu in his address to the O.A.U. at Abuja 1992

Start a number of businesses

Each of the businesses mentioned previously e.g. chicken farm, clothing factory, joinery and furniture making shop; the Tour Company will be independent business run within the project. Their workers will also be shareholders.  The object here is to put an end to wage slavery. A 60-Acre site has been set aside for the communal farm. This farm will be using laborers to help with the weeding and harvesting but will be a community venture. All people living on site would be expected to play an active part in the preparation, the planting and harvesting of all crops. Food crops are not for sale but for community consumption.