Complex sentence: Garvey started the venture with Sam Manning, a pioneering black recording artist and calypso singer from Trinidad, and it was part restaurant, part social centre and part jazz club, and a meeting place for black intellectuals and everyone interested in Pan-Africanism.
Split into simpler sentences: Garvey started the club with Sam Manning, a pioneering black recording artist and calypso singer from Trinidad. The club was part restaurant, part social centre and part jazz club, and a meeting place for black intellectuals and everyone interested in Pan-Africanism.