Juan Cole | What Africa Taught the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
15 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News DEMOCRACY: USE IT OR LOSE IT - Democracy is not promised, given, or owed to anyone. It is a living, breathing system. Just like the human body it thrives with use. In use it is immensely powerful. Help us with the small resources we need. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Juan Cole | What Africa Taught the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "In 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its independence from Britain." READ MORE n 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its independence from Britain. The British had grabbed the fabled West African Gold Coast in the nineteenth century in order to profit from its gold and other resources (after having profited in the 18th century from slaving in the region). As late as the 1940s