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“EXCELLENCE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE” P A G E 102 African descent, as well as Africans everywhere in the Diaspora. In 2003, Ian Adams, honorary fellow of the University of Durham, and his co-author R. W. Dyson, director of the Centre for the History of Political Thought, jointly published 50 Major Political Thinkers. This publication listed Garvey among giant thinkers and well-known philosophers over a 2,000-year period, beginning with Plato, Aristotle, and including others such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas Machiavelli, and Karl Marx. But, what is not widely-known or recognized are the andragogical dimensions of the colossal intellectual legacy Garvey bequeathed to the world. To better understand the contextual background against which Garvey emerged and was stirred into action, a brief recounting of aspects of the institution of chattel slavery and its aftermath in early post-emancipation Jamaican society is necessary. This author thinks this ‘point of departure’ effectively reveals the depth of Garvey’s genius showing as it does his intuitive recognition that tourniquets needed to be applied to the abused psyche of his people, to arrest the hemorrhaging of their self-esteem inflicted by the indignities of slavery and its aftermath.