Malcolm X was born  May 19th, 1925)

He would have been 96 this year. We remember and honor his legacy.

Did you know?

Malcolm X visited Nigeria on two occasions, one in 1959 and the other in 1964.
The first visit was to arrange a tour for the NOI.

During his second visit in 1964, he delivered a very moving speech at the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The students, faculty listened with rapt attention to the electrifying message of a man they came to refer to as “Omowale”

About that visit Malcolm X said:

”When I was in Ibadan, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria last Friday night, the students there gave me a new name, which I go for — meaning I like it"
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“Omowale,” which they say means in yorùbá—if I am pronouncing that correctly, and if I am not pronouncing it correctly it’s because I haven’t had a chance to pronounce it for four hundred years — which means in that dialect:
“The child has returned.”
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"It was an honor for me to be referred to as a child who had sense enough to return to the land of his forefathers — to his fatherland and to his motherland. Not sent back here by the State Department, but come back here of my own free will.” -Malcolm X

Powerful words from a remarkable man.

May he rest well and may his legacy be remembered.