(..)-(« Notes from the Chief Editor)-(Yves T Bouazo)-(« Image »:Lucky Dube)
-South african and pan african Reggae Star (Lucky Dube) was shot dead in alleged car hijacking in the outskirts of (Johannesburg ), the (capital of South Africa) on the (18th) of (October-2007):In consequence, it’s our Tribute to a great and peculiar Reggae music maker!They’ve gone, won’t be forgotten!
-So let’s remind some of his committed and conscious lyrics such as:(« House of Exile ») in his own creation:(« Freedom fighter standing on a mountain in a foreign country, trying to send a message to his people back in the ghetto.He had a home one time, loved a girl but he left behind.I’m still here in the house of exile for the love of the nation.
-Furthermore, in another lyrics titled (« Slave »):(« Ministers of religion have visited me many times to talk about it, they say to me, i gotta leave it, it’s a bad habit.My friends keep on telling me, i’m a fool among fools, i’m a slave just a liquor slave. i’ve lost my dignity i had to please everybody.
-Finally in (« Prisoner ») he said:(« Somebody told me about it when i was a little boy, he said to me, crime does not pay, he said to me education is the key. i know what i was doing but i’m still in jail, i’m a prisoner.I looked around me, but to see nothing. your gray walls staring at me.The policemen said to me, they won’t build no schools anymore and they will build prison, prison…
-Down the line, his lyrics were fundamentally a confort to the oppressed black south africans who went through a vampire and blood sucker system formerly called (« Apartheid) in (South Africa), but today the rainbow country is facing another Apartheid in disguise against the african immigrants, being looted and killed recently.Apartheid has now a new controversal shameful face in (South Africa), what a disgrace for Africans today!