What is an illustrious music career these days without a run
in with the long arms of the law? In Eric Donaldson’s Land of
Birth the difference in world outlook between local gangs and
the police is no better than what it is in Ajegunle and Lagos
Island here in Nigeria. Jamaica is no restful garden of Eden
for its artistes, in other words.
Bob Marley got shot and had to flee to London for safety.
Peter Tosh was killed by assailants. These are the sad
examples. The bad examples are the ones that in one way or
the other got themselves into trouble on their own, through
what they did or didn’t do themselves. We present them here
