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Jamaica greets Africa: Connecting to the Afro-Caribbean Beat
- By Maria Victoria Malela
- Published 05-Dec-07
- Rhythm Overseas
- Unrated
From the very beginning, the show was placed under the sign of a meaningful encounter between Jamaica and Africa, each represented by their respective spokesmen for the occasion: reggae veteran artist Pablo Moses and Guinean independence militant Seyni Kouyate. Both singers have demonstrated with their natural warmth how to let a ‘Nation language’ speak out to turn into ’Universal demands’ uprising from the rich embracement of two musical genres having fundamentally the same root, the same communicative rhythm speech.
Back from his tour in Africa, Pablo Moses would probably define himself the show as an invitation to reverse all prejudices with highly claimed concerns of freedom, unity, humanity, self-affirmation, global environmental accountability and the least we can say is that the message has been greeted with overall awareness.
Spanning the historical as well as the present, the Afro-Caribbean beat simply made a groovy difference...