LABELLED EVER SINCE AS THE « MALCOM X » OF REGGAE MUSIC, DEATH CAME HIS WAY DURING A BLOODY NIGHT AT HIS YARD AND HOMELAND « KINGSTON »(JAMAICA) ON THE (11TH OF SEPTEMBER-1984)!DOWN THE LINE, « PETER TOSH » WAS SHOT DEAD BY TWO GUYS SENT BY THE SYSTEM DESIGNED IN DISGUISE: AS FAR AS SOME CREDIBLE TESTIMONIES ARE CONCERNED, THE CRIMINALS DID NOT WEAR MASKS AND THEY ASKED MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, THE FIRST EVIL OF OUR CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES! UNFORTUNATELY,BLACK PEOPLE KEEP ON LOVING MATERIAL RATHER THAN THEIR OWN BROTHERS NOWADAYS…THE CONTROVERSY GOES ON BECAUSE THEY KILLED A NATIONAL HERO ON CASH MONEY GROUNDS! HISTORY CAN RECALL THOSE LAST WORDS OF « PETER TOSH » ON THE BRINK OF DEATH:( » I DON’T HAVE NO MONEY IN THE HOUSE »!
IN SHORT,IT’S OUR GREAT TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE « WAILING WAILERS » BARELY 3 DECADES LATER! IN THE 80S, « PETER TOSH » SANG ( AFRICAN) IN HIS OWN WORDS:(DON’T CARE WHERE YOU COME FROM, AS LONG AS YOU COME FROM WEST MORELAND, YOU ARE AN AFRICAN! NO MATTER YOUR COMPLEXION, YOU’RE AN AFRICAN!NO MIND YOUR DENOMINATION, IF YOU COME FROM « BRIXTON », « MANHATTAN », « MIAMI », »CANADA », A LONG AS YOU’RE A BLACK MAN, YOU ‘VE GOT THE IDENTITY OF AN AFRICAN »)! IN THE SAME TREND, »PETER TOSH » DID NOT TAKE THE MOTHERLAND FOR GRANTED, THROUGH HIS DEDICATION TO THE BLACK CONTINENT IN (1982):(MAMA AFRICA)(LONG TIME I SAW YOU MAMA, LONG BEFORE I WAS BORN)!OTHER LYRICS SUCH AS:( « EQUAL RIGHTS », « STEPPING RAZOR », « MYSTIC MAN », « GLASS HOUSE » ARE THE CONSPICUOUS EVIDENCES OF HIS COMMITMENT!
( YVES T BOUAZO)(CHIEEF AND MANAGING EDITOR)(« IMAGE »: »PETER TOSH »)