non-gugler wrote:
WEB Dubios? Is the guy who invented the peanut?
He was born in USA, and died in Ghana.
Didn't seem to kick off a wave of African repatriation though.
Maybe this award will help?
A harbinger of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism, he died in self-imposed exile in his home away from home with his ancestors of a glorious pastAfrica.
When the (Pan-Africa) conference was concluded (in 1923), he set sail for Africa for the first time. During the trip through "the eternal world of Black folk" he made a characteristic observation"The world brightens as it darkens." His racial romanticism was given free reign as he wrote"The spell of Africa is upon me ..."
President Nkruma welcomed DuBois and asked him to direct the government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana. The offer was accepted graciously and a year later, in the final months of his life, DuBois became a Ghanian citizen and an official member of the Communist party.