Hail! United States of Africa-free!Hail! Motherland most bright, divinely fair!State in perfect sisterhood united,Born of truth; mighty thou shalt ever be. Hail! Sweet land of our father's noble kin!Let joy within thy bounds be ever known;Friend of the wandering poor, and helpless, thou,Light to all, such as freedom's reigns within. From Liberia's peaceful western coastTo the foaming Cape at the southern end,There's but one law and sentiment sublime,One flag, and its emblem of which we boast. The Nigeria's are all united now,Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, too.Gambia, Senegal, not divided,But in one union happily bow. The treason of the…

The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was the largest pan-African mass movement of all time. It was founded in 1914 by Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887–1940) in Kingston, Jamaica. Garvey, a printer, journalist, and political activist, had returned from 4 years of travel in Latin America and Europe...