By David Katz ● Issue 143 (January/February 2017)
Word of mouth (January/February 2017)
House of Tosh Three decades after the violent death of Peter Tosh, a new Kingston museum remembers the legacy of the reggae superstar....
Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 84 (March/April 2007)
The rebel: Peter Tosh
I was listening to some early Wailers the other day — material they recorded back in the sixties, long before the group signed with...
Embark, Culture, Literature, Reviews
By Various Contributors ● Issue 122 (July/August 2013)
Caribbean Bookshelf (July/August 2013)
The Comfort of All Things, by Ian McDonald (Moray House Trust, 83 pp, ISBN 9789768212832) Ian McDonald’s most recent collection...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 120 (March/April 2013)
Take ten (part 1): the greatest reggae singers of all time
I love lists — stuff like the ten best this, or the twenty worst that — largely because they’re virtually guaranteed to ignite...
Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 115 (May/June 2012)
The magnificent Peter Tosh
As just about any aspiring author will testify, one of the trickiest things in the book world is finding a publisher. And it tends to be...
By Various Contributors ● Issue 102 (March/April 2010)
Reviews (March/April 2010)
BOOK REVIEWS Half the story’s never been told David Katz A mixed-race child born into poverty in colonial Jamaica, Bob Marley...
Culture, History, People, Jamaica
By Various Contributors ● Issue 31 (May/June 1998)
The World of Rastafari
Imagine you’ve booked a holiday. You’re off to the Caribbean; maybe visiting friends on another island. But when you arrive you...