February 2011

UWI Panel Discussion –Social Impact of Jamaican Popular Music

Feb. 26, 2011

Greetings
I am delighted to be here with the other panellists – Professor Freddie Hickling, Dr. Donna Hope and Mr Cordell Green -- exploring and discussing Jamaica’s popular music. I have no doubt that this will largely centre on dancehall. I thank Professor Claudette Williams of the Cultural Studies Department, University of the West Indies, for inviting me to participate.

THE IMPACT OF MUSIC ON THE PSYCHE OF CHILDREN – HOW IT AFFECTS BEHAVIOUR & PERCEPTIONS

Institute of Jamaica
Audience –Adults & Children
February 21, 2011

Thank you for inviting me to share some thoughts with you today about the ways in which music can influence us.
There are many schools of thought about music and its ability to influence our thoughts and our behaviours—to get into our minds and make us think and do certain things:

Talking Music, Media & Adolescent Sex with the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica

Talking Music, Media & Adolescent Sex with the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica

 

Black History Month Sensitization

Address to Students at Spanish Town High School, Jamaica
February 14, 2011

Why Black History Month
The idea of Black History Month came about as one way of remembering the journeys of African peoples away from their continent to other lands far away. In remembering this, we honour their struggles and successes. Since 1976, now 35 years ago, Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States of America (USA), Canada and the United Kingdom (UK). The UK is also called Great Britain and is made up of England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. So, we see that Black History Month is celebrated in many other places apart from Jamaica. In the USA they mainly call it African-American History Month.

Me & My Mobile -- Buju Live via Mobile Phone

Content Drives Demand

I heard it first on radio via talk show host, Ragashati, Mr. King of Mixup!! Good for LIME I thought, who better than Raga to make this announcement. After all, King Raga has afternoon radio locked into sorting, swiping and similar sexual stimulations. LIME was therefore guaranteed a large audience for the announcement that its trade-in offer of your old cell phone, from whichever provider, for one of its new mobile TV phones was sold out by Friday afternoon, January 14th. This came after only a couple days of the offer being publicized and from all reports was a great surprise for LIME—hence the fact that they ran out of instruments so soon, leaving many would-be mobile TV watchers very disappointed.

Riding a Camel Across the Great Sahara!!

Memories of Egypt -- Riding a Camel & Much More!!

I told him I had to ride a camel.  I didn’t bargain for a horse as well—and for one full hour in the sands of the Sahara!  An Egyptian man is hard pressed to take ‘No’ for an answer. 

Memories of Egypt -- Cairo the City that Never Sleeps!!

Memories of Egypt—Cairo the City that Never Sleeps
After a few false starts I finally arrived in Cairo, Egypt. As one photo exhibition pronounced, “Yes, Egypt is an African country”. It’s situated right up there to the north of the huge continent. Cairo is one of the largest cities in Egypt and boasts anywhere from 15 to 18 million people, depending on who you believe.

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