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bob marley grand daughter donisha prendergast has a missionAs the godfather of reggae, Bob Marley created a global soundtrack for the Rastafari culture, spreading its message of freedom around the world and encouraging the oppressed and impoverished.
More than three decades after the Jamaican singer’s death, his eldest granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, 30, has adopted the same rallying cry as part of an effort to halt the seizure of the historic site on which the movement that inspired Marley’s music laid its first foundations. The showdown centres on Pinnacle, a 500-acre hilltop site in Sligoville, Jamaica that was once home to the island’s first self-sustaining community of freed slaves and their descendants. Founded in the 1940s, it is considered the cradle of Rastafari, the African-based spiritual ideology that infused Marley’s anthems such as One Love, Buffalo Soldier, Iron Lion Zion, and Get Up Stand Up. “Rastafari and Bob Marley gave the world the ideology of ‘One Love’ and it all began at Pinnacle,” said Ms Prendergast. “Could you build on the pyramids of Egypt? Could you build on the historic spaces of Pittsburgh? No. Then why do they do this here?… We need the attention of the world to help us tell our people and our leaders how important it is to preserve this place, not because it’s prime land and can make a lot of money but because it’s our history.” This is just one among many good deeds this wonderful and beautiful young lady is all about. Don't you mess with a woman on a mission. But wait a minute, who is Donisha Prendergast? Read more... |
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