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Destination: Jamaica Departure Time: 1975
The shooting of Bob Marley and the consequences of what happened next
A Brief History of Seven Killings
What you need to know before your trail
Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. This is the fact disguised as fiction, the face of Jamaica no one really wants you to see but a range of people, some of them already dead, give their account of events as they played out.
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Think Pulp Fiction in page form
Bob Marley
This is his story and the story of his country. However, this is not for the faint hearted. This is graphic violence and then some. This is the bloody, deadly and dramatic heart of Downtown Jamaica. Where a crazy evil world exists if this novel is anything to go by.
Jamaican politics
Michael Manley’s election as prime minister in 1972 was the catalyst for much upheaval in the country as his attempts at controlling and changing the export industries meant that the economy became unstable. The CIA and American business leaders opposed him as did many of his fellow politicians But when they got some local gangsters to help them maintain and increase their hold on power, the real upheaval began
One Love Peace Concert
This concert held on 22 April 1978 at The National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica was to reunite the country since the violence and to bring back the exiled Bob Marley from London. This was Marley’s first performance in Jamaica since the “Smile Jamaica” concert held days after he was shot in 1976.
Downtown Jamaica is a hotbed of drugs, degradation and the brutal everyday – from the ranks of the American CIA to that of the Jamaican gangsters and everyone in between.
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