MARLEY FILM HAS AN EXTRAORDINARY MESSAGE ABOUT THE ETHIC OF WORK

On Monday, London’s “Telegraph” published an interview of British director, Kevin MacDonald by Florence Walters. Kevin MacDonald recently made a film on life of Jamaican musician, Bob Marley.  The movie is a masterpiece.

Kevin MacDonald- pic courtsey of University of Aberdeen....

Well to start with in the last 31 years, I have watched many Bob Marley films, read numerous books, wrote several reviews and continue to sing some of his songs in my gigs. In the UK, “Three Little Birds” one of his simplest melodic tunes, is so popular in primary schools that whenever I play it I hear teachers singing along, loudly with pupils:

“Don’t worry about a thing

Every little thing is gonna be alright.”

GREED HAS EVOLVED INTO A DANGEROUS MONSTER POST 1967 ARUSHA DECLARATION ERA

Monument symbol of the historical declaration in Arusha 1967 that changed  Tanzanian course for many decades...

Prior to the 1967 Arusha Declaration it was common for the new African political elite to party and enjoy. An expression that evolved in Kenya via then President Jomo Kenyatta applauded greed.

“Enjoy the fruits of Uhuru” the late Mzee Kenyatta is quoted to have said.

The late Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya, he died in 1978.

 Political critics coined the word “Wabenzi” to describe the African ruling class because of their preference to the luxurious German Mercedes-Benz. Mwalimu Nyerere had written in his 1962 book on

Ujamaa that after winning Uhuru we cannot accept a society of “haves and have-nots.”

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