The primary goal of that character was to be educated and learn the secrets of the CIA for the perceived revolution soon to take place in the USA against the Whites.
This was a movie alike Cotton comes to Harlem, 1960s-70s films which portrayed a minister ala Reverend Wright who pushed for Black Nationalism and separatism and a return to Africa, but was actually a scheme to enrichen himself,
in both instances the similarities between past fiction and current reality are indeed blurred.
LOL. Cotton Ed and Gravedigger Jones saved the nation!