Writing is a passion that involves creativity, but it’s not tougher than choosing the right subject that readers may like. Readers don’t tell writers what they want; therefore, it’s sometimes difficult to know the minds of readers and the articles they might be interested in. This is one of the reasons I like to spread my tentacles on every subject. Who knows? There are certain groups or classes of people who may be interested.
Like Africa, full of fresh, sweet coconut trees with tasty juice, Jamaica is full of great artists; some reggae fans may not even know about them. Freddie McGregor, Frankie Paul, Cocoa Tee, Jacob Miller, Barrington Levy, Alton Ellis, etc.
Lucky Dube of South Africa: One of the world’s greatest reggae legends
Many great people die and fade into silence. Their achievements disappear with them, their names swallowed by time. However, Lucky Dube is not one of them.
Like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, his legacy refuses to die. His voice still echoes across continents, his message still heals broken spirits, and his music still stands as one of Africa’s greatest cultural gifts to the world.
Bob Marley:
His words and prophecies through his music are taking place
A couple of weeks
ago, I wrote an article captioned “Is Belgium’s Royal Family Proud Of The
Horrible Crime Leopold II Committed In Africa?”
The significance of
the article is that no one in his right mind will build a statue of someone who
maimed and killed over 10 million Africans, including women and children, when
there is no statue of Hitler for committing a similar crime against
humanity.
The article spread over all the social media including ‘NIUME,’ one of the outstanding social media platforms and someone made a comment. According to the reader called Sue Marlington: “Well I didn’t even know that there was a Royal family in Belgium, thank you for the insightful post.”
Yes, Sue is right, many people don’t know that there is even a Royal Family in Belgium, because the country even though it is very small, people know more of evil Belgium committed in Africa than a country known for its quality beer and chocolate productions.
This is the result when evil overcomes good, you are completely denied and buried forever.
THE WISDOM AND PHILOSOPHY OF BOB MARLEY
On May 11, 1981, one of the world’s greatest musical icons died, he was Bob Marley. There is no one on earth whose popularity and fame spread decades after his death like a bush fire in the dry season than Bob Marley.
Like Sue Marlington, a number of people don’t know there is a monarchy in Belgium, but people know that Belgium killed Patrice Lumumba because he fought for the independence of his country, Congo, and the Belgians were mad.
Astonishingly, everyone including illiterates and remote villagers knew who Bob Marley was because of what he stood for which reflects on his music.
A lot has already been written about this little man from Jamaica full of wisdom and knowledge, so I’m not going to repeat articles already written. Today, I have selected 10statements Bob Marley made in his music for readers, music lovers, and the so-called politicians who have destroyed this world to ponder over them.
1. Culled from the track ‘Natural Mystic’:
There’s a natural mystic blowing through the air; If you listen carefully now you will hear. This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last: Many more will have to suffer, Many more will have to die – don’t ask me why.
2. Culled from the track ‘Talking Blues’:
I – I’m a gonna take a just-a one step more ‘Cause I feel like bombin’ a church – Now – now that you know that the preacher is lyin’. So who’s gonna stay at home, When – when the freedom fighters are fighting?
3. Culled from the track ‘Babylon System:
We refuse to be What you wanted us to be; We are what we are: That’s the way (way) it’s going to be. You don’t know! You can’t educate I, For no equal opportunity: (Talkin’ ’bout my freedom) Talkin’ ’bout my freedom, People freedom (freedom) and liberty! Yeah, we’ve been trodding on the winepress much too long: Rebel, rebel! Yes, we’ve been trodding on the winepress much too long: Rebel, rebel!
4. Culled from the track ‘Ambush In The Night:
(Ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!) See them fighting for power (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!), But they know not the hour (ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh-wa!),; So they bribing with their guns, spare parts, and money, Trying to belittle our Integrity now. They say what we know. Is just what they teach us, And we’re so ignorant ‘Cause every time they can reach us (shoobe, doo-wa) Through political strategy (shoo-be, doo-wa); They keep us hungry (shoobe, doo-wa), And when you gonna get some food (shoobe, doo-wa), Your brother got to be your enemy, we-e-ell! Ambush in the night, All guns aiming at me.
5. Culled from the track ‘One Drop’:
I know Jah’s never let us down; Pull your rights from wrong (I know Jah would never let us down) Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! They made their world so hard (so hard): Every day we got to keep on fighting (fighting); They made their world so hard (so hard): Every day the people are dyin’ (dying), yeah! (It dread, dread) For hunger (dread, dread) and starvation (dread, dread, dread, dread), Lamentation (dread, dread), But read it in Revelation (dread, dread, dread, dread): You’ll find your redemption And then you give us the teachings of His Majesty, For we no want no devil philosophy; A you fe give us the teachings of His Majesty, A we no want no devil philosophy:
6. Culled from the track ‘Time Will Tell’:
Jah would never give the power to a baldhead Run come
crucify the Dread. Time alone – oh, time will tell: Think you’re in heaven, but
ya living in hell.
7. Culled from the track ‘Redemption Song’:
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but
ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy, ‘Cause none of them can stop the time. How long
shall they kill our prophets, While we stand aside and look? Ooh! Some say it’s
just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfill the book.
8. Culled from the track ‘One Love’:
One Love! One Heart! Let’s get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin’ (One Love!); Hear the children cryin’ (One Heart!),
Sayin’: give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Sayin’:
let’s get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
9. Culled from the track ‘Coming In From The Cold’:
It’s you – it’s you – it’s you I’m talkin’ to -Well, you
(it’s you) – you (it’s you) – you I’m talking to now. Why do you look so sad
and forsaken? When one door is closed, don’t you know other is open?
Would you
let the system make you kill your brotherman? No, no, no, no, no, no! No,
Dread, no! Would you make the system make you kill your brotherman? (No, Dread, no!) Well, the biggest – biggest man you ever – ever –
see was-a once a baby.
10. Culled from the track: ‘Pimpers' Paradise’:
She loves to party, have a good time; She looks so hearty,
feeling fine; She loves to smoke, sometime shiftin’ coke; She’ll be laughin’
when there ain’t no joke.
A pimpers' paradise: that’s all she was now; A
pimpers' paradise: that’s all she was; A pimpers' paradise: that’s all she was
now; Pimper’s paradise: that’s all she was. (Every need got an ego to feed; Every need got an ego to feed.)
Bonus- Culled from the track ‘Stiff Necked Fools’:
Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool To deny me for
simplicity. Yes, you have gone for so long With your love for vanity now. Yes,
you have got the wrong interpretation Mixed up with vain imagination.
So take
Jah Sun, and Jah Moon, And Jah Rain, and Jah Stars, And forever, yes, erase
your fantasy, yea-eah! The lips of the righteous teach many, But fools die for
want of wisdom. The rich man’s wealth is in his city; The righteous’ wealth is
in his Holy Place.
Bob Marley sings 'Africa Unite.'
Conclusion and opinion
Black history has been tampered with and facts have been
swept under the carpet by one race to portray another race as inferior.
Many
times, I hear people saying that ‘I am ashamed to be a White man,’ due to the
evil things committed against other people on this earth’s surface. But nobody
needs to be ashamed.
Instead, let’s pray for those who have bitter hearts
towards others because bitterness will only promote your health to disaster.
The Royal Family of Belgium: King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, and their children.
“It takes a million people to build up a good reputation, but it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything they have done,” sings the late Lucky Dube, South Africa’s reggae legend. This is the exact situation of the Royal Family of Belgium, as one of its ancestors, King Leopold II, was a greedy, ruthless ruler and a murderer.
Some women have given birth to monsters to rule this world. Apart from Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, etc., another evil man whose crimes against humanity shocked the world is King Leopold II. Born on 17 December 1865 in Brussels, the horrible crimes Leopold committed were swept under the carpet, but the hump in the carpet has exposed his heinous crimes to be seen by the whole world.
In the 1880s, when Europe was scrambling over the continent of Africa like ants stumbling upon a sugar source, Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held vast natural mineral resources, including rubber, a commodity in high demand in late 19th-century industrial Europe.
King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800s. On his throne in Brussels, Leopold gave orders to his commanding officer to “cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades, also their sexual members, and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross.”
Leopold’s reign of terror wasn’t only the cutting off of the
heads and hands of the innocent, helpless Congolese, but also flogging them to death,
starving them into forced labor, holding children ransom, and burning villages as a punishment for those who failed to meet the rubber quotas set by the
Belgian officers.
The disturbing part of this story is that after the death
of Leopold II, his successors (the Belgian Royal Family) never took his crimes
into account. Instead, he was hailed as a hero, with streets named after him and a statue built in his honor.
That’s where the Royal Family went wrong because
the dead can’t be mocked. There are many restless souls haunting people in
their homes. There are houses where people can’t stay inside, all because of the
horrible circumstances in which those people were murdered.
The lunatic King Leopold II's statue
Adolf Hitler killed over six million Jews. In Germany, streets named after him have been changed, but not in Belgium. The government has named many streets after the lunatic Leopold II, and many of his statues are all over Belgium.
A country that doesn't support crime wouldn't do what the government did. The reason I say it clearly and loudly is that the Royal Family of Belgium supports crime.
"Nobody can stop reggae. Nobody can stop reggae. Nobody can stop reggae. 'Cos reggae's strong."
You can change the style of playing reggae You can change the rhythm of playing reggae But never change the message every time I play it, a Babylon A wish me fe dead, a wish me fe dead"
Those are the wonderful lyrics of one of the greatest tunes of the South African Reggae legend, Lucky Dube. October 18 marks the 5th anniversary of the murder superstar in his country.
In the early eighties, the reggae world took another dimension when a Jamaican artist by the name King Yellowman stormed the reggae scene with classic recordings that gave him international stardom.
Yellowman was born Winston Foster on 15 January 1956 in Kingston, Jamaica. As a dancehall deejay, Yellowman used his talent to compose great songs, establishing his identity as a true reggae icon in Jamaica.
Interview of Lucky Dube at Pole-Pole Festival on July 4th, 2004, (Belgium) By JOEL SAVAGE
Lucky Dube is, no doubt, one of the best reggae artists the world has ever produced. His strong dissemination of melodic messages about racism, exploitation, and oppression has won him acclamation all over the world. On July 4th, 2004, in Linkeroever-Antwerp, after playing live, he granted this exclusive interview to the Voice Magazine Belgian Correspondent. Joel Savage
The fully air-conditioned bus carrying Lucky Dube, the famous South African-born reggae star, his manager, Mr. David Jacobs, and the entire musical group arrived at the premises of the festival at Linkeroever-Antwerp. There was another group playing on stage, and Lucky had to perform with them. He arrived on time. He sat in the bus for about thirty minutes, and suddenly he came down in a grey leather cap, covering his dreadlocks, a pair of blue jeans, and black shoes.
