Bob Marley To Get A Street In Nigeria

October 14, 2008


Nigeria will re-name streets after music legends Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Bob Marley, as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, a minister said on Wednesday. Names of some 80 streets in Nigeria's administrative capital are to be rebranded in coming days, some of them stripping off names of former military governors,the minister said. Without specifying the ex-state governors whose names will be struck off roads in an Abuja suburb resided by legislators, Federal Capital Territory minister Aliyu Umar said some of the roads had been "inappropriately named".

Source: Iriefm.net

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Alton Ellis Passed Away

October 14 2008

(photo by gigwise.com)

Reggae legend Alton Ellis died in a London hospital on Friday. He was 70. While the family did not wish to release any details of the singer's illness or death, Trojan Records on their website stated that Ellis has lymphatic cancer.

Ellis is known as the "godfather of rocksteady". He had a number of reggae hits in the early sixties during the early days of reggae music.. Ellis also penned the 1962 Gene Chandler hit "Duke of Earl".

Ellis made a return to popularity in the past 15 years due to the resurrgence of rocksteady in Jamaica and Europe.


Source:examiner.com

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Video:Prince Pankhi - My Jamaican Girl

October 14, 2008

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