Claude McKay and Michael Manley believed that if a political ideology were needed to lift the African Diaspora and the South out of the bondages of dependence, it would not be globalisation. McCarthy compares and illuminates the ideas of the famous Afro-Caribbean poet and novelist Claude McKay and the world-renowned socialist Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley. He shows that, although they came from wildly different political and social backgrounds, they arrived at a common awareness that the dominant political ideology of the North does not work for Africa.