Laura Adorkor Kofi

[1] Some versions of her early life also say that she experienced visions and voices which encouraged her to go abroad and teach Africans in America.

[2] Her detractors in her last years spread rumors that she was born "Laura Champion" in Athens, Georgia; but religious history scholar Richard S. Newman compiled evidence to confirm that she was, in fact, Ghanaian by birth.

She worked as national field director for Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, touring the deep South and attracting large crowds[4] as a "prophet" (in her own estimation), with her base in Jacksonville, Florida.

She died from the gunshot wound to her head; a Jamaican follower of Marcus Garvey, Maxwell Cook, presumed to be her assailant, was immediately beaten to death by the congregation who witnessed the attack.

)[6] There is a small collection of research materials related to Laura Adorkor Kofi at the New York Public Library.