Bob Marley and the Wailers play the final show of the Kaya Tour at Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, FL on August 5, 1978. Upon returning home to Jamaica, Bob Marley finds himself at the center of a fight between the Assembly of Rastafarian Patriarchs and the Cabinet of the Jamaican Government over the re-examination of the Damgerous Drugs Law, the transfer of Sovereign power from the Queen of England to Jamaicans, and a repatriation programme. During this fight, rastafarians, led by Jah Lloyd, seized an area of National Heroes Park in Kingston on August 1 and held, what was supposed to be, a 29-day vigil. However, they ended up occupying the park well into September. Bob Marley was enlisted upon his return from touring North America as a key negotiating partner. I have included a series of articles on the stand-off from the Jamaica Gleaner.
Says Lindsay Donald of this photo: “Jah Lloyd’s army were a militant lot and even Bob would sometime trod carefully around them.”
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