The biopic about Bob Marley exceeded the forecast from the box office, collecting $80 million in the first weekend. And the failure of “Madame Cobweb” continues
Music biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” surpassed all expectations, taking in $27.7 million over its traditional weekend and $51 million over the six-day holiday weekend. Instead, “Madame…
Bob Marley, Saatchi Gallery, review: ‘the Rainforest Café of exhibitions’
There’s no exploration of the post-war Jamaica that shaped Marley, no details I could see about his musical influences, or how he formed the Teenagers (later the…
Barbara Blake-Hannah, Britain’s first black TV reporter: ‘Why did the English make themselves so difficult to be loved?’
Among the middle-classes in Jamaica in which Blake-Hannah was raised, Rastafarianism was associated with outcasts and criminals. “People saw it as this strange religion of crazy people…
‘The English made themselves so difficult to love’: Britain’s first black TV presenter looks back in anger
“The carnival was passing right along the road where I was living in Ladbroke Grove,” Blake-Hannah remembers. “I got Thames to send a crew but he didn’t…
Ben Okri: I knew if I spoke the wrong language I’d be taken into the bushes and shot
Ben Okri, 62, was born in Minna, Nigeria, in 1959. Aged two, he was brought to England; his father had come to study law in London. The…