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Getting All Shook Up

My chat with the taxi driver from Saisbury train station to a nearby barracks covered the reason for my visit, his father’s service in the Royal Air Force, and global security issues before we discussed and arranged him picking me […]

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Survival (1979) – Refuse to be what they want you to be (22 October 2010)

1979!!! There is revolution in Iran and a power struggle in Chad; Michael Bishop coups in Grenada and Tanzanian troops force Idi Amin out of Uganda; Flight Lieutenant J J Rawlings seizes power in Ghana and Saddam Hussein does the […]

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Kaya – Get up and turn I loose! (13 October 2010)

Kaya – Get up and turn I loose! What made my Dad buy me an album from an artist he knew nothing about? Kaya was that album and after the initial appreciation of the music, the words of Robert Nesta […]

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Nesta and Fela – No place for fear (6th November 2010)

Did Robert Nesta Marley ever meet Fela Anikulapo Kuti? Ah well, I can only imagine it would have been quite a conversation. Nesta, exiled from the mother continent by the injustices to ancestors and unrelenting in his dream for all […]

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