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Encyclopedia > Edward Wilmot Blyden

Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician in Liberia and Sierra Leone. He was the Liberian Secretary of State (1862-1864) and Minister of the Interior (1880-1882); he also served as professor of classics (1862-1871), then President (1880-1884), of Liberia College (now the University of Liberia). In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... The Interior Minister is a member of a Cabinet in a Government. ... The University of Liberia in Monrovia, Liberia is the oldest instituition of higher learning in West Africa. ...


As a writer, he is regarded widely as the Father of Pan-Africanism; his major work, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (1887), pushed forward the idea that Islam, a major religion in sub-Saharan Africa, has a much more unifying and fulfilling effect on sub-Saharan Africans, while Christianity, also a major religion in Africa which was mostly introduced by its European colonizers, had a demoralizing effect. This idea would play a major role in the 20th-century revival of Islam among African-Americans, which ran parallel to the rejection of Christianity as a white man's religion. Pan-Africanism is a term which can have two separate, but related meanings. ...


As a diplomat, he served as an ambassador for Liberia to Britain and France. He also spent time in other British colonies in West Africa, particularly Nigeria and Sierra Leone, writing for early newspapers in both colonies.


He was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (then under Danish rule) to free parents on August 3, 1832, and died in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on February 7, 1912. Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States. ... For other cities of the same name, see Freetown (disambiguation). ...


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