So I've always heard the kingstonian interpretation of the song by the Mighty
Diamonds which serves as the subject heading for this email as an invocation
of Marcus Garvey and his African internationalist politics. So I have a dumb
question which everyone from Chevannes to Campbell never explicitly explains;
chalk it up to my middle class Afro-Saxon upbringing: but what exactly IS the
connection between Garvey's philosophy and the invocation of 1977 as a
"dread" and apocalyptic time?
Joseph N Clarke
Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
in English
The University of Pennsylvania
English Department, Bennett Hall 119
3340 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6273 USA
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