The year 1977 in the Rastafari movement’s calendar was a prophetic year. And we know we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil, good over evil.” We Africans will fight, we find it necessary. “And until that day, the African continent will not know peace. The song ends with a message of hope to the African. The song has much of its lyrics taken from the speech the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie gave to the United Nations in 1963. These two crimes have their underpinnings in racism where one race feels it has the natural right to subjugate other races because of its color. The song is a revolt against the phenomenon that precipitated the two greatest crimes the world has ever witnessed, slavery and colonialism. Find them, listen to the lyrics, read about them and live up to the world. His profound messages against oppression, slavery in whatever from, sufferation and the subjugation of a part of the world makes him stand out as a musician with a class.Today happens to be 35 years since he found himself in the shores of the afterlife from succumbing to a cancer medically known as Acral Lentiginous Malignant Melanoma. That tiny man from Jamaica sold that genre of music to the world and beyond. When Reggae is mentioned, the name that readily comes to mind is Bob Marley.Īnytime I visit the Nima-Maamobi Community library, I make sure I find time to read something again about this man from the book Bob Marley: His Musical Legacy by Jeremy Collingwood. He described other genres of music as “music that rises today and dies tomorrow.” It is an everlasting music as noted Peter Tosh. That act ended in a real fight between us. I love reggae music now to the point that I once unplugged a DJ’s electrical socket at a wake-keeping in Frankies, Nima just because he did not play even one reggae track over that night. His teachings coupled with my further researches really revealed a whole lot of world issues to me. The man who really baptized me in Reggae music is Blakk Rasta formally of Hitz fm.
I got inundated with more Reggae songs by my friend Hamza Hajj Ayub whom I spent most part of the year 2007 with. That was the day I started following Reggae Music religiously. I had to replay that song to the umpteenth time. The music that played first began with the lyrics “until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war.” The lyrics gripped me like death.
It so happened that a friend had a music player which he gave me one day. I must confess that I argued violently those days. And my mind yearned for thought-provoking issues. It became like a sponge, absorbing things as I encounter them. My mind became like what Mutabaruka stated in his poem “Dis poem”. I read more to the point when I began to read about porn stars. Those were the days I could ‘buy time’ in the internet cafe and sit for hours researching and reading about the lives of great men. Personally I regarded his talks as musings of a confused person.Īfter Senior High School, I took a personal initiative to acquire as much knowledge as possible on my own. He always stated that all the genres of music are for the weak-hearted and that reggae is for real men and the strong-hearted. For our three years stay in school, he has extolled the qualities of Reggae music ad nauseam. James was a classmate back in O’Reilly Senior High School. I used to loathe reggae music to the point that I regarded James Amoako as delusional. The genre of music I like and really have an affinity for is reggae. Why are we so moved by music? The answer is really quite simple: music is a beautiful gift from God. Moreover, because music speaks straight to our heart, it has power. It moves us to ecstasy and reduces us to tears. It soothes and excites us, uplifts and inspires us.
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Most will consider that a dull and unappealing prospect.” It continued: “Yes, music appeals to virtually the full range of human emotions. “ Can you imagine life without music? No soothing lullabies. My view in this argument was captured well by the Awake Magazine of the Jehovah Witness of August, 2011. Those who hold contrary view also say it is the form and content of music that determines its good or bad nature and that music in itself cannot be bad. A large number of exegetes of the Quran in their exegesis of some verses that talk about the wheedlings and seductions of Satan in the hearts of men say he does it through music. One of the topics that have seen more views given than the sands of the Accra (Borla) beach is the position of music in Islam.
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