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The new biopic of one of music’s all-time greats brings into focus Jamaica’s struggles with neocolonial debt, crippling poverty, and unchecked gang violence. Nothing has changed — and that’s little to dance about, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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LAST weekend I managed to go and see the new movie Bob Marley: One Love.
As a child of Jamaican-born African descendants who remembers the era talked of in the film all too clearly, it brought back many memories of my parents being concerned about the wellbeing of our family having to live through the gang violence that wreaked havoc on the beautiful island.
No — this is not a review of what I think is a very good film. Rather, the movie evoked so many memories of the power of Marley’s music and the pride that it gave those of us of Jamaican descent at a time when in Britain we were faced with constant racism at school or work and the threat of attack from racists in the street or our homes.
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