Marcus Garvey was one of the greatest black leaders of the 20th century. His is a story of a man who launched an idea on the tide and created a flood in the worldwide development of black political consciousness. As the leader of America's first mass political movement of black people, Gerbey's achievements were both enormous in their scale and long-lasting in their effects. This is an in-depth biography and history of this great man who envisaged so much and inspired so many.

Liz Mackie presents an in-depth look at Marcus Garvey, one of the greatest Black leaders of the 20th century. She shows how he was a man of extraordinary intellectual and organisational abilities who brought millions of people from the African diaspora together in an attempt at self-liberation.