Robert Nesta Marley, O.M., composer
Robert Nesta Marley, O.M., composer
On this day 25 years ago, the Jamaican songwriter and political activist Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami. He was only 36 years old.
I’m not sufficiently grounded in either Jamaican or African politics to venture any sort of opinion on what his long-term impact has been in those realms, though at least as far as Africa goes, he would still have had plenty to write about today.