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“In these tiny theatres of conflict and confusion, better known as the Isles of the West Indies”, as David Rudder has aptly described it, there are always concrete and distinct occurrences that reveal a deeper ideological and philosophical crisis, among our peoples, confirming that, Bob Marley’s epitaph of “our need to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, as none but ourselves can free our mind”, is as great a need now as when he sung it in the 1970s.
