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Jamaica Now

Jamaica now is a publication of the Jamaica Information Service of the Government of Jamaica that featured information on the country's political and economic growth.

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The Pepperpot covers the period 1915 to 1975 and was presented as a “Magazine depicting mainly the personal and lighter side of Jamaican life”. It is a melting pot of poems, short stories and articles and is infused with a lot of plates and illustrations. The first issue in the Collection was published in 1915 and is made up of short stories and poems, written in English and the Jamaican dialect.

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Written Rastafari Archives Project (WRAP)

The provocative literary materials in this collection provides an historical time stamp and current affairs commentary on the transitional period in the Rastafari Movement’s development—a period extending from the early 1970s through to the present. It is a forty-three year period during which the Rastafari Movement has been spreading across the Afro-Atlantic world in one form or another and becoming progressively globalized.Each title can be viewed separately by clicking on the title found below the Detailed Description section.

Type of Database:

International db

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Dr. Fred Kennedy

The West Indies and Special Collections (WI&SC) Receives New Publication
On Thursday, February 22, 2018 the Mona Library’s West Indies and Special Collections, received a new addition to its collection, Huareo: Story of a Jamaican Cacique, authored by Dr. Fred Kennedy. Copies of both the English and the Spanish editions of the publication were donated.

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