Issue 7 jan/feb 2011
We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness – embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.
What's inside
Reggaetown Amsterdam
For hundreds of years, Amsterdam has been a centre for the trade of lucrative and mind-altering substances from opium, tobacco, coffee, tea, spirits, sugar and spices, and the city has never quite shaken off its smuggling, piratical ways. But…
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Jah Vibes Soundsystem
“My first thought was: What kind of madness is this?” Sista Adilisha, one of the few women at the control tower, talks about musical madness. Following a soundsystem education in London, she put together her own soundsystem in Cologne, Germany,…
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Art: Freestylee on music and art
Before the Green Bay incident I was already drawing and painting images depicting international struggles for independence taking place in Southern Africa. During the 1970s, many of the Reggae artistes were singing about the fight for freedom in Mozambique,
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