Marcus Garvey is one of the most important figures in the history of Pan-Africanism. Born in Jamaica in 1887, this former printer built a movement capable of mobilizing millions of people in the United States, the Caribbean, and even Africa. His ambition: to unite the descendants of Africans, build their economic independence, and give Africa back control of its destiny.

With the UNIA, the newspaper The Negro World, and the Black Star Line, Garvey transformed Pan-Africanism into an international popular movement. But his rise to power was a source of concern. American authorities were monitoring him, J. Edgar Hoover took an interest in his movement, and Garvey ended up convicted of mail fraud, imprisoned, and then deported from the United States in 1927.

In this documentary, we retrace the entire story of Marcus Garvey: his childhood in Jamaica, his time in London and Harlem, the birth of the UNIA, his project for economic emancipation, the Black Star Line, his conflicted relationship with W. E. B. Du Bois, the surveillance by American authorities, his trial, his exile, and his final years in London.

But above all, we will see how a man who died in 1940, without having seen Africa's liberation, left behind ideas that continue to resonate through generations and influence Pan-Africanism, African independence movements, and figures like Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X.

How did Marcus Garvey become one of the most influential Black men of his time? Why did his movement so worry the American authorities and the colonial powers? And what remains today of his dream of African unity?

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