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Anatol Rodgers Memorial Lecture Enthralls Audience The third annual Anatol Rodgers Memorial Lecture organized by the School of English Studies and held on Thursday, 13th November, 2008, at Choices Restaurant featured prolific writer and university professor, Kwame Dawes, who spoke engagingly on the topic "Reggae and History: How Reggae Changed, Reads and Teaches History." Professor Dawes was born in Ghana, but grew up and went to school in Jamaica, and he called on his introduction to Jamaica as a primary schoolboy struggling to understand and learn Jamaican patois to begin his lecture. It had been, he said, the Rastas in the community where he lived who had truly helped him to adjust to his new surroundings for it was the Rastas who had the appreciation for their African heritage. They were especially interested in this family from the mother continent who had just arrived. This was in marked contrast to other Jamaicans who still seemed to feel a certain shame for their slave and African past.  Professor Dawes, who is a prolific writer and a man who loves to teach, skillfully presented his scholarly interpretations of the lyrics in a very accessible way, mixing the academic with the popular to draw his audience into his message. Particularly edifying was his reading of the Marley classic, "Redemption Song", which said Professor Dawes, "takes us from the African in the diaspora and compels us to se everything as resolved only through a spiritual act of song." It was also captivating to hear his explanation of Marley as a Joseph figure - Joseph who was chosen in spite of himself and sold by the merchants to the Egyptians. At the conclusion of the lecture, a lively question and answer session ensued which brought to a close another very successful and well attended Anatol Rodgers Memorial Lecture.
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