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Thirty seven years after Peter Tosh’s murder, By Festus AdedayoSPECIAL REPORT: Antimicrobial resistance crisis heightens in Nigeria, other countriesINVESTIGATION: Beyond the Facade: Unveiling the Violence in Nigeria’s ‘Peaceful’ Presidential ElectionsThirty seven years after Peter Tosh’s murder, By Festus Adedayoposthumous anniversary of the killing of Jamaican reggae music lord, Winston Hubert MclnTosh, popularly known as Peter Tosh.
While he held the gun, turning his anger on Marlene, Leppo had angrily accused Tosh, in the Jamaican patois, of “giving his woman authority over we,” stating that Marlene was responsible for Tosh’s inability “to maintain we.” He also ordered the two other assailants to immediately disarm Tosh, warning them that the reggae maestro was “a black belt.” He later shot Tosh himself on the forehead.
The militant disposition and themes of repelling those who mocked the Rastafari religion were dominantly addressed by Tosh in the track, “Recruiting Soldiers.” Therein, he sang that he was recruiting soldiers “for Jah army” because “Jah time is now” and “Satan’s forces all rise up to fight… Jah and the saints… fighting against Jah children… slaughter them like slaves… and say Jah is dead, But they didn’t show me his grave.
n February 17, 1992, about five years after Tosh’s assassination, the Ethiopian radio announced that Selassie’s remains had been discovered beneath his office by workmen. Later revelations showed that he died in a house arrest detention but with various claims on the correct circumstance of his passing. Some said he died during a medical procedure, while to some, he was strangulated.
posthumously bestowed with a national honour of the Order of the Companion of Oliver Reginald Tambo by the South African government “for his contribution to the fight against the apartheid regime.” The award was received by Tosh’s youngest daughter, Niambe, at a grand ceremony in Pretoria presided over by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. According to theTosh also had an anti-Semitic disposition and was a staunch supporter of the call for a Palestinian homeland.
Barely five months after the Peace Concert, Tosh was arrested by the police. He was mercilessly beaten and in the process, his skull was cracked. He only stayed alive by feigning that he had been murdered. This probably explains the recurrence of “brutality of Babylon” in his songs. In his “Na go a jail,” Tosh banalised the criminalization of hemp smoking and made a mockery of the system which relentlessly hounded the weed smoker.
Tosh’s funeral, unlike that of his archrival, Bob, was a fiasco. Two men turned up claiming they were his father and Peter’s mother had to disown them. The funeral service held at a Jamaican Ethiopian orthodox church was interrupted by youth protesters and a man who claimed to be a necromancer. The man, who claimed he held conversations with the dead, stood by Peter’s coffin to conjure his soul out, hectoring on the body, “Arise and open the casket!” It was to no avail.
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