Now We Know by Roger Mais

[Islandman]

His seminal piece on British colonialism. He was arrested for sedition and sent to prison for 6 months after it was published.

Although we are justified in criticizing the poor national leadership Jamaica has experienced post-independence, let us never fool ourselves into thinking that life in the British colonies was any bed of roses either.

[Stonigut]

Brilliant Iman, brilliant, thanks.

I have never read anything by Mais had no idea he was writing stuff like this. Interesting how intense that must have been in that time, of where a England was and where she had been prior to that time which today almost seems like a relic of a bygone era even though we still suffer from the real impact of three hundred years of that colonialism across many places today. Also interesting is the take on the great socialist republics which exist no more.

[Gamma]

I would deay love to see his novel 'brother man' made into a movie! I think we have had more than a bellyful of the "Shatta movies"

[Sir X]

Agreed , sick of the shatta foolishness, reminds me of dancehall, how many times and ways can you DJ about bedding a woman and being a gangster.

[Islandman]

Yes Stoni I knew that a man like you would enjoy this one. When you read it it is like you are taken back to the time and place of its origin. Such is the power of good writing.

I remember hearing my elders talk about this article while discussing Jamaican political history back in the day but I never read it before a friend posted this on Facebook this week.

Gamma I need to read Brother Man again. I read it in school but I don't think I got a full appreciation of it at the time, the way I did with Sixty-five by VS Reid or Miguel Street by Naipaul

[Don1]

Babylon Shitstem is a Vampiya

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