"In the early days of television, programme content was almost totally imported. Fourteen years the programming situation still reflects an excessive dependence on imported television programmes." (author)
Garvey's work caused him to become a prophet to Rastafarians and a national hero in Jamaica. The article is reprinted in Rex Nettleford's Caribbean Quarterly monograph: Rastafari (Kingston: Carribean Quarterly, University of the West Indies, 1985)
"The limitations of the philosophy of black power emerged when the leaders of this popular movement failed to link the spontaneous protest to the organized activities of the working class and farmers. ...The experiences of the National Joint Action Committee and the National Union of Freedom Fighters led to a re-examination of the all-class notion of race, and new political groupings emerged or gathered strength as they sought clarification and answers to the pressing problems of the people. ...The rise of these popular and democratic organizations marked a new turning point, but the failure of some these groups to root their movement in their own historical specificity with the distorted and uneven development of the proletarian masses, led to the growth of the Rasta movement among the youth." (author)
Included in the journal's special issue: The Plenaries: Conference on Caribbean Culture in Honour of Professor Rex Nettleford, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica (03/1996), edited by Barry Chevannes and George Lamming; 103 pp., Discusses Ethiopianism and Pan-Africanism as philosophies based on the premise that the alliances of the blacks of Africa and the diaspora are not limited by borders. These philosophies, both grounded in Atlantic crossings, are arguably part of the process of completing emancipation through their creation of a new discursive space for blacks, what Brodber terms "Blackspace." --Kezia Page, Transnational negotiations (2011, p. 68)
