Did You Know They Were Jamaican?: Minister Louis Farrakhan
Leader of the Nation of Islam, and one of the most charismatic and controversial black leaders of our times, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is a full-blooded West Indian. Louis Eugene Walcott was born on May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, NY to a mother who was a native of St. Kitts and Nevis and a father who was a Jamaican cab driver from New York (but was not active in his life). At a young age Farrakhan was introduced to the performing arts and became a gifted violinist, calypso singer, and dancer. At the age of 22, Louis Farrakhan was invited to attend the Nation of Islam’s Saviours’ Day convention and three months later dedicated his life to The Nation. In recent years Minister Farrakhan’s health has been declining due to his battle with prostate cancer and an ulcer but he still remains the National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and The Nation of Islam.
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