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Wilfred Aldolophus Domingo (W.A. Domingo) (1889-1968) of Kingston, Jamaica, became an instrumental conduit of Jamaican Independence. He became the youngest editor of Marcus Garvey's newspaper the Negro World, a position which enabled him to launch his career as an activist and Journalistic editor. As an activist W.A.Domingo traveled the United states advocating for Jamaican Sovereignty and as a leader of the Black Brotherhood and the Harlem Socialist party and a writer.

Career
Domingo was educated in a public school in Jamaica and attended the Board School, an English run colonial school. Upon graduating, W.A. Domingo took up an interest in writing and began to work for Marcus Garvey’s newspaper the Negro World as an editor. Through this role, he later gained the attention of Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. Domingo became a writer for Locke's anthology The New Negro. Domingo's essay "The Gift of the Black Tropics" gave an account of the sudden immigration of foreign born Africans of the West Indies to Harlem during the early 1920s.