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In 1913-1914, Dusé Mohamed Ali was attending the Woking Mosque and was working under the tutelage of Khwaja Kamaluddin. In Feb of 1914, Khwaja Kamaluddin and Dusé Mohamed Ali (of the African Times and Orient) wrote a letter to the “The Times” about Christian missionary activity in East Africa (See “The Times”, newspaper, Feb-20-1914). Marcus Garvey was a student of Dusé Mohamed Ali in this era, 8-9 years later, he worked with Mufti Muhammad Sadiq in Chicago. Even in a recent interview with Qasim Rashid, Fanusie alleged that Khwaja Kamaluddin taught Islam to Dusé Mohamed Ali who then taught Marcus Garvey, this can also be found in her dissertation (see page 238). Fanusie quoted Ian Duffield, “Duse Mohamed Ali and the Development of Pan-Africanism, 1866-1945”, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1971, 420-425. The young Marcus Garvey, then studying in London from Jamaica, frequently visited Ali’s Fleet Street office and was mentored by him David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), The Oxford Companion to Black British History, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 25). Garvey briefly worked for Ali and contributed an article to the journal’s October 1913 issue of the African Times and Orient Review.
In 1921, following the demise of the African and Orient Review, Dusé Mohamed Ali travelled to the United States, never returning to Britain. In Oct-Dec-1921, Dusé Mohamed Ali’s name and photo appeared in over 20 U.S. newspapers. His arrival was announced as-if it were a marketing campaign (See the photo in the below). The newspapers also ran the headline that explained how Dusé Mohamed Ali represented a 25-million-dollar trading company, organized to export vegetable oils and fats from the West Coast of Africa. In the US, he worked with Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) movement. He also contributed articles on African issues to UNIA’s the Negro World. He taught in a department of African affairs.
In 1985, via the “Garvey Papers” by Hill, a man named George Farr was pointed out as a member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in San Francisco (See the scans in the below). There seems to be a weekly report by J.J. Hanigan (a commandant, 12th Naval District, in a letter to the Director of Naval intelligence)(Dated as 12-3-1921) wherein he reports of one of his informants having met George Farr and described him as a well educated Negro. However, this informant also says that George Farr spoke like an American educated Hindu, he didn’t speak English like the Negroes in the South. This informant also says that George Farr looks like a Hindu, not like a Negro. Interestingly, a letter by Duse’ Mohammed was also mentioned in this report. However, the Ahmadiyya connection is not made at all.
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1985
Who is George Farr? – ahmadiyyafactcheckblog
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2025/07/06/who-is-george-farr/
In 1985, via the “Garvey Papers” by Hill, a man named George Farr was pointed out as a member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in San Francisco (See the scans in the below). There seems to be a weekly report by J.J. Hanigan (a commandant, 12th Naval District, in a letter to the Director of Naval intelligence)(Dated as 12-3-1921) wherein he reports of one of his informants having met George Farr and described him as a well educated Negro. However, this informant also says that George Farr spoke like an American educated Hindu, he didn’t speak English like the Negroes in the South. This informant also says that George Farr looks like a Hindu, not like a Negro. Interestingly, a letter by Duse’ Mohammed was also mentioned in this report. However, the Ahmadiyya connection is not made at all.
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Links and Related Essay’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey
Negro World, Vol. 8 no. 24, front page – NYPL Digital Collections
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a4fcc980-c60d-012f-b16c-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0
The Negro world, Vol. 10, no. 10 – NYPL Digital Collections
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cdf174e0-7e54-013b-c285-0242ac110002?canvasIndex=0
negro world newspaper archives – Search Images
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