Why wives symbolise divinity in Luhyia cultures of western Kenya, must be present when finishing to build family house
Some of these traditional cultural beliefs inherited or passed down through generations rather than practices based on ‘scientific’ evidence. The science in this context refers proven or verifiable family lineage or sanguinity.
Ruto’s deportation of rights activists echoes Jomo Kenyatta’s rejection of influential Black thinkers Walter Rodney and Frantz Fanon
Walter Rodney had come from Guyana with a scholar’s training and a revolutionary’s concern for ordinary people. He had studied Africa deeply, not as a dead place in old books but as a living source of memory, pride, and resistance.
Day American rock-and-roll icon Bruce Springsteen saw homeless guitarist rejected; what he did next stunned shop owner
He played it the way people play guitars they have known a long time with a familiarity that went beyond technical skill into something more like reunion. The specific ease of a player and an instrument that have the same language. He played for about three minutes moving through something that wasn’t quite a song and wasn’t quite improvisation but was somewhere between them.
Damascus moment: Day White supremacist came to kill Bob Marley, instead ‘saw the light’ in front of 15,000 reggae enthusiasts
Derek Mitchell was crying. The song ended. Bob turned away to continue the concert, but something irreversible had happened in those few minutes. Derek sat back down, his body shaking. The black father beside him, the same man Derek had been mentally categorising as an enemy two hours earlier, reached over and put a hand on Derek’s shoulder.
Known to God, mourned by Bob: How Bob Marley restored some dignity to eight dead homeless people in Kingston, Jamaica
The funeral home men lower the coffin on ropes. It hits bottom with a soft thud. The priest says final prayers.
How reggae legend Bob Marley’s humanity taught White studio owner redemption is possible for anyone willing to seek it
Inside the studio, Richard Wittmann watched through the window as the crowd continued to grow. He was getting nervous. 15pm. By now, over 200 people had gathered in the small park. Local musicians had joined Bob on stage, a makeshift stage that was really just the park’s small pavilion. Country musicians, rock players, even some gospel singers had come to support Bob and protest the studio’s discrimination.
Redemption songs: Day Bob Marley ‘liberated’ BBC from racial bias against Black musicians, opened up space for Black workers
The band looked around. Bob was right. White Londoners were crossing the street to avoid walking past them. Parents were pulling their children closer.
How Tanzanian state-sponsored band, Nuta Jazz and its mutations gave East African music unmistakable tone and tenor
Nuta Jazz Band may not have documented albums in the modern commercial sense the way today’s artists release studio projects, but the band produced a rich catalogue of classic muziki wa dansi songs that circulated widely on vinyl records, radio broadcasts, live recordings and compilations across East Africa during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Day Baptist pastor derided Bob Marley as devil worshiper only for the Reggae artist’s ‘Amazing Grace’ to serve him a healthy dose of Jah love
Before Pastor Johnson could object, Bob began reciting from memory: “Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.”
How stolen moments, secret letters and constant fear of forbidden love inspired Bob Marley’s ‘No woman, No Cry’ song
Sarah was crying, her hands pressed to her mouth. She’d obviously recognised the song’s true meaning the moment she heard it in this context, surrounded by thousands of people singing words that Bob had first whispered to her under starlight.
