In "FROM DAVID WALKER TO BARACK OBAMA," Dr. Emma S. Etuk contends that well-known Ethiopianists have o ered the inspiration for black freedom and must not be forgotten.

Ethiopianists and Ethiopianism have little or nothing to do with the government or the country known today as Ethiopia in East Africa. Ethiopianists shared the common belief, hope, and faith in Africa as the land of their ancestors to which, by the grace of God, they would return as free people. They based their hope and faith in Africa upon a biblical text found in Psalm 68:31: "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia...