As the splendid cover photograph shows, Garvey's pomp equalled the best of the west's military heroes. His bicorne hats evoked emperors ... and "rum-shop scholar", Marcus Mosiah Garvey escaped ...

Marcus Garvey, the charismatic organizer of the Back-to-Africa Movement and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), remains a revered and disparaged figure whose influence ...