WHEN AFRICA AWAKES The “inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World The “inside Story” of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World By HUBERT H. HARRISON, D.S.C. Author of “The Negro and the Nation,” “Lincoln and Liberty,” and Associate Editor of the Negro World COPYRIGHTED By HUBERT H. HARRISON, 1920. PUBLISHED BY THE PORRO PRESS 513 Lenox Avenue NEW YORK CITY 1920 THIS LITTLE RECORD IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO STOOD BY MY SIDE IN LOVE, LABOR AND SACRIFICE WHEN THE FOUNDATIONS WERE LAID TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY The Great War of 1914–1918 has served to liberate many new ideas undreamt of by those who rushed humanity into that bath of blood. During that war the idea of democracy was widely advertised, especially in the English-speaking world; mainly as a convenient camouflage behind which competing imperialists masked their sordid aims. Even the dullest can now see that those who so loudly proclaimed and formulated the new democratic demands never had the slightest intention of extending either the limits or the applications of “democracy.” Ireland and India, Egypt and Russia are still the Ithuriel’s spear of the great democratic pretence. The flamboyant advertising of “democracy” has returned to plague the inventors; for the subject populations who contributed their millions in men and billions in treasure for the realization of the ideal which was flaunted before their eyes are now clamoring for their share of it. They are
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