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Bob Marley buffalo soldier

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Created on November 2, 2023

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BOB MARLEY: BUFFALO SOLDIER

What do you know about BOB MARLEY ?

Can you guess when he was born? His real name ?

BOB MARLEY: - Robert Nesta Marley - born in 1945 - in Jamaica - dead at the age of 36 in 1981 (cancer). - The most famous singer of reggae. - He promoted the Jamaican music and Rastaffari movement. - Justice, inequality and racism. Most of his songs talk about societies issued like black rights and revolution.

Rastafari (rasta): - social and religious movement - 1930s - Jamaica - Emperor of Ethiopia -> flag - African people and the African diaspora believing it’s oppressed by the Western society - God: Jah

The REGGAE: -> from the Rastaffari -> 1960s -> Jamaica

Written in 1978 Released ( = sortie) 5 years after his death Bob Marley’s most famous song

TRANSLATION in groups

Who are the Buffalo soldiers ? -It’s a cavalry regiment (army). -Only Black American soldiers -Created in 1866 during the Native American war.

- They are from Africa - by White colonists - became slaves. -> FORCE TO FIGHT and in the frontline to kill Native Americans ! Find the lyrics explaning that.

YES ! "Stolen from Africa, brought to America"

The Native Americans when they saw these Black soldiers: named them “Buffalo” because - their black skin - their hair = reincarnated into buffalo.