Archive for September, 2017

Jamaican cuisine comes to Okemos

Sunday, September 24th, 2017

There’s a picture on the wall of Louise Bennett.  Not Bob Marley. Louise Bennett, a Jamaican poet and folklorist. "She is the first iconic female to take the language of Jamaica global," Shawn Fearon said. "She paved the way for Bob Marley. I have a soft spot in my heart for females, because I grew up with a single [...]

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An oral history of Holy Bob; So Much Things to Say reviewed

Sunday, September 24th, 2017

The Harder They Come, Jamaica’s first (and still finest) home-grown film, was released in 1972 with the local singer Jimmy Cliff as the country boy Ivan Martin, who becomes a Robin Hood-like criminal outlaw amid the ganja-yards and urban alleys of the Jamaican capital of Kingston. The film’s director Perry Henzell, a ganja-smoking white Jamaican [...]

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