‘Africa Unite’ (2008)
This film is a strange confab of celebrity travel souvenir and retrospective of the Rastafarian movement on the occasion of Bob Marley’s 60th birthday.
Much of the surviving Marley clan is featured here — Ziggy, Rita, Cedelia, Damian and Julian — there’s music and interviews. And more interviews — interviews with lots of people who just happened to show up for Bob’s birthday celebration down in Ethiopia. There’s Danny Glover, Angelique Kidjo, Lauren Hill and others but the participants here seem to be fighting over Marley’s legacy as much as celebrating it.
But the title of the film is ‘Africa Unite’ and NOT ‘A Posthumous Celebration of Bob Marley’s 60th Birthday’. [Read more →]
It’s sort of painful to revisit the 2000 elections in 2007 – since that time we’ve had our entire reality realigned by 9/11 and seen the prosperity of the Clinton Era flushed down the toilet into tax relief for the wealthiest 2% of us and seen the construction of a $592 million embassy for the permanent occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile, Public Schools remain broken and 45 million citizens remain uninsured.
