A whole generation of school children grew up in the West Indies, Afro-America and Africa who never saw the name of Marcus Garvey mentioned in their history books, The man who had led the largest international political movement among Africans in history, disappeared, as it were, from the pages of history. Where he was mentioned, it was usually in a very few sentences suggesting that he was probably a crook and a fool (p. 149). This reviewer vividly recalls his fruitless search for published information on Marcus Garvey when his body was returned to Jamaica in 1964.

Our core mission as a faculty and university is to generate ideas that provide answers to our society's challenging problems through our research work. Qualitative inquiry encompasses the investigation into human experience. This is a dynamic experience as it is lived, felt, made sense of and undergoes metamorphism. The qualitative inquirer seeks to understand and report on experiences with the use of authentic methods to observe and probe, thereby revealing the interactions, intentions and meanings of human experiences.