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My Bob Marley musical: Kwame Kwei-Armah on his reggae emancipation by Amy Fleming

One Love tells the story of Bob Marley fleeing Jamaica after an assassination attempt and finding new inspiration in a Britain embracing punk. Our writer meets its creator at last-minute rehearsalsKwame Kwei-Armah didn't want to be a Bob Marley fan. For a start, his big sister was into reggae, which put him off. What's more, as he was growing up in London in the 1970s, white kids were forever coming up and asking "Ar…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM on March 8, 2017

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