Lisa Hanna, winner of the Miss World 1993 1993 pageant who turned out to be a politician is the latest politician to raise her voice about Reggae legend Bob Marley being named National Hero.In an op-ed in the Sunday Observer, a spokesman for the opposition on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade said the move would be a step in the right direction, amid Jamaica transition talks for the Republic.
“Looking back now at how Bob's songs and rhythms provided a voluntary departure for the social values expected of women from that generation whose British Winners' values of 'honor' would be taught, I am grateful for his direct influence on them, which ultimately influenced. me and many others in the world, ”he said in part.
"Forty years after his death, in our 60th anniversary of independence from Britain, Bob Marley continues to form a Jamaican monument, repeating itself with a cry of consciousness, troubling the world with a call for hope to take action in the midst of despair. How? And what should this mean for us as a country seeking Republicans from our colonial remnants? " Hanna added.
“… From Columbia to Mauritius, Swaziland to Israel, or Scotland to Turkey, there was always a one-time record of Jamaica, regardless of their race, color, language, or gender; he was our reggae king, Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley.
Hanna, 46, who also served as Minister of Youth and Jamaican Culture from 2012 to 2016, added that Marley's music was an important part of her upbringing — and had helped shape her.
"As a child, the formation of my growing awareness in the 1970s Jamaica was encouraged by listening to songs from the albums of Exodus, Natty Dread, Uprising, and Survival. It was hard to escape, especially since my Aunt Donna McIntosh would have come with my godmother, Winsome Miller-Harvey, playing in our living room, singing with my mother in their loud voices, ”he continued.
Hanna punished the government and other authorities for failing to be careful in naming a man who has made significant contributions to Jamaican culture, as a national hero.
"He is an international hero for many nations, but Jamaica has never found it worthwhile to give him the honor of a national hero. Victoria against the Rastafari lifestyle. "
"While Jamaica seems to be waiting for the Queen's approval to honor Bob Marley as a National Hero ... Barbados singer Rihanna joins the Barbados festival as a Republic and will be nominated as a National Hero," Spragga said.
In February 2020, music industry veteran Tommy Cowan, a former Marley sales manager, said that no one else, including the Seven National Heroes, had the influence of the Exodus singer, but that there were people in Jamaica who can not "get. beyond the fact that they see this man with contempt that he cannot be a National hero.
However, the Professor of Culture, Gender and Society at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Donna P. Hope, had told Jamacia Gleaner in an August 2017 issue that, for a small nation, Jamaica already had a "way too." many national heroes. ”
"I really think we should be very careful about how we distribute that concept of hero or hero status to individuals," Hope had said. The professor, who is the publisher of several Jamaican music books including Inna Di Dancehall and Reggae Stories, also stated that some people "want to mistakenly place the hero's status on individuals based on success in their careers and international recognition. ”.
In December 2021, Opposition Senator Floyd Morris issued a notice in the Jamaican National Assembly that he would file a petition calling for Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Usain Bolt and Louise Bennett Coverly to be National Heroes, before Independence Day. (August 6, 2022).
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