E. W. Blyden, 1887. Liberian educator, writer, diplomat, and politician Edward Wilmot Blyden was born in the Danish West Indies to free black parents who claimed descent from the Igbo people of present-day Nigeria. He joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to Africa. From "Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising" by William J. Simmons.

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