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Songs of freedom in a dancehall in Zimbabwe
Bass culture is as old as Zimbabwe itself
Finding harmony with my father through the timeless power of Jazz
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Bob Marley biopic: Less legend, more human
Film has all the hits, none of the misses – and very little of the miss-e
Reggae’s resistance roots struck a chord in SA
South Africa and Jamaica share a history marked by colonisation and slavery
The time has finally come for LKJ in prose
‘Time Come’, a collection of essays, speech, reviews and other forms of prose by the dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson, makes for compelling reading
Bob Marley: The Prophet’s feel-good theology
Christianity tells us to worry about hellfire; Bob Marley tells us ‘Don’t worry about a thing’. Drew Forrest looks at the Jamaican singer’s timeless appeal
Robbie Shakespeare: A manipulator of space and sound
A master of a sparse, propulsive style, Robbie Shakespeare’s bass spoke volumes
Robbie Shakespeare: A silence louder than a bomb
A master of feel, Robbie Shakespeare’s bass spoke through the silence
The Portfolio: How Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry gave Bob Marley his chops
An extract from the biography ‘People Funny Boy’: how the maverick producer transformed the sound of reggae and its number-one group
Bunny Wailer – the stone that the builders refused
Not as commercially successful as his bandmates, Bunny Wailer was a consummate songwriter
Babylon By Bus: How Bob Marley influenced Dennis Morris’ photographic career
The photographer got his first big break touring with The Wailers in the 1970s, after skipping school to meet the band
Tanzania’s opposition leader on reggae, resistance and his own resurrection
Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight
Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy
Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step
Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary: Marley and the birth of Zimbabwe
The iconic concert to celebrate independence in Zimbabwe would prove to contain a warning
The story behind Bob Marley’s Zimbabwe
Gibson Mandishona on how he helped compose a reggae classic