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20/06/2012

A survivors journey after the 1963 Jamaican Rastafarian massacre

Albert Robinson reading from his novel "Locks and the Cross" at the Pudding and Punch Literary Arts Festival held at the...
12/05/2012

Albert Robinson reading from his novel "Locks and the Cross" at the Pudding and Punch Literary Arts Festival held at the Altamont West Hotel in Montego Bay on December 11th, 2011 which was put on by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission

12/05/2012

Introduction

In the Easter of 1963 less than a year after Jamaica’s jubilant independence a bloody massacre was launched against Jamaican Rastafarians,
Hunted like wild animals by police officers they are brutally beaten, jailed by the hundreds and several killed subsequently to an alleged order from the then Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante. Read about the hardships and triumph of a survivor name Marcus mulling entwined decades later with the life of his son Canute, a Rastafarian and a once promising athlete who struggled emotionally after the tragic death of his mother. Canute’s life is further complicated after falling in love with a Christian girl as he is faced with intense discrimination from the church. Follow the story of persecution, determination, love and success in the novel “Locks and the Cross”.

12/05/2012

"I trembled with immense fear as i watched as both parents were brutally dragged on the ground by their locks then thrown into a jeep like bags of garbage that was the last time i ever saw them, i was only 8 years old."(April 11,1963 taken from the novel LOCKS AND THE CROSS)

12/05/2012

Get a copy of the new book that is set to become the new big thing out of Jamaica that talks about the truth while explaining love, hardships and trials.

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