Colin Grant
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Colin Grant is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is the author of Negro with a Hat, a biography of Marcus Garvey, and I&I: The Natural Mystics, a group biography of the original Wailers, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer. His account of life with his father in 1970s Luton, Bageye at the Wheel will be published by Jonathan Cape on 05 April 2012.

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Bob Marley - the Cornerstone in Kevin Macdonald's Documentary

0 Comments | Posted 20 April 2012 | 05:15

The face of Bob Marley adorns millions of T-shirts and posters around the globe and wherever you are in the world, you're probably not far from the pulsing sound of one of his signature songs. Having been groomed by Chris Blackwell, the boss of Island Records, and marketed as a...

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Selling Out

0 Comments | Posted 1 July 2011 | 15:21

My skin is black but for some people it's not black enough. Ordinarily, I can dip below the radar and get through life without being rumbled. My mistake was to write a biography of Marcus Garvey.

At a time in the 20th century when Negroes believed themselves despised, the flamboyant...

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