Akon bolted back to the top of the international headlines when the Senegalese native made the extremely bodacious statement that all blacks should consider moving back to Africa after George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
This is not the first time that a major black celebrity has suggested such a bold move. There have been multiple occasions since President Abraham Lincoln actually did move a large number of blacks to Africa. Here are major black American figures who called for African Americans to return to the Motherland: