We will visit and Our first Pan-Africanist W.E.B. Dubois! The great thinker, philosopher, professor, author and leader.
W.E.B. Dubois was a frequent visiting professors' and honorary doctorate of Howard University. He wrote an infamous letter to Howard on March 4, 1930 in reference to the training of the "negro mind". He also infamously included Howard in his HBCU lecture tour (Howard, Fisk and Hampton) giving a speech titled "Education and Work" `on June 6. 1930.
Du Bois was persecuted, hand-cuffed at his arraignment, vilified, put on trial, but acquitted. Nevertheless, he chose to leave the US behind him and emigrated to Ghana, at the invitation of President Kwame Nkrumah, where he spent the rest of his life.
At the end of his life, Du Bois embarked on an ambitious project to create a new encyclopedia on the African diaspora, funded by the government of Ghana. A citizen of the world until the end, the 93-year-old Du Bois moved to Ghana to manage the project, acquiring citizenship of the African country in 1961