back to Africa
Diaspora return ideology
Back to Africa refers to movements encouraging people of African descent to return to the African continent, most associated with Marcus Garvey's early 20th-century campaign.
The phrase appears in historical and political contexts: Garvey's back-to-Africa movement attracted millions of followers.
It has also been used as a racist taunt telling Black people to "go back where they came from," ignoring centuries of American roots.
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- LiberiaWest African coastal republic
- Pan-AfricanismContinental and diaspora solidarity ideology
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- homelandOne's native land
Marcus Garvey · ancestral home · roots · exodus · colonization · motherland · heritage · emancipation · Sierra Leone · nationalism · freedom · free soil · ancestral · return · emigration · Rastafari · Ethiopia · promised land
- Pan-AfricanismPan-Africanism, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, motherland, negritude
- Victorian reformpoor laws, poorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor
- Caribbean SpiritualityRastafari, Rastafarianism, vodou, voodoo, Santeria
back to Africacivil rights movement
Organized effort against discrimination
racial integration · cultural assimilation · melting pot · American Dream · Booker T. Washington
back to AfricaMiddle Passage
Transatlantic slave trade crossing
African diaspora · Atlantic slave trade · Great Migration · dispersal
back, Africa, African, backs, backed, backing, backer, backside, backward