The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
Correct answer: D. Completing an oppressed people's quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.
- A. Bringing African culture to the United States.
- B. Leaving the African peoples alone.
- C. Writers who took African themes for their work.
- D. Completing an oppressed people's quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.
Explanation
Garvey's Back-to-Africa programme presented migration and Black self-determination as part of the struggle of an oppressed people for freedom, dignity, and political independence. It was not mainly a literary movement or an attempt simply to import African culture into America.
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