Wilfred Aldolophus Domingo

Wilfred Aldolophus Domingo (W.A. Domingo) (1889–1968) of Kingston, Jamaica, was an activist and journalist who became the youngest editor of Marcus Garvey's newspaper the Negro World. As an activist and writer, Domingo traveled to the United States advocating for Jamaican sovereignty as a leader of the Black Brotherhood and the Harlem Socialist party.[1]

Career

Domingo was educated in a public school in Jamaica and attended the Board School, an English run colonial school specifically for the West Indies. Upon graduating, W.A. Domingo took up an interest in writing and began to work for Marcus Garvey’s newspaper the Negro World as an editor. Through this role, he later gained the attention of Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. Domingo became a writer for Locke's anthology The New Negro. Domingo's essay "The Gift of the Black Tropics" gave an account of the sudden immigration of foreign born Africans of the West Indies to Harlem during the early 1920s.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Jones, Ken (21 August 2011). "Remembering Wilfred Domingo: A Pioneer of Our Independence Movement". Jamaican Gleaner.
  2. ↑ Rampersad, ed. by Alain Locke. With an introd. by Arnold (1997). The new negro : [voices of the Harlem Renaissance] (1st Touchstone ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 341. ISBN 0-684-83831-1.
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