In early November 1975 the Cuban Government had decided to send regular combat troops to Angola in order to help the beleaguered liberation movement MPLA to resist the two rival movements fighting alongside the South African white supremacists' army and the CIA. Towards the end of December the Jamaican Government found itself pressed to take a position.

Walter’s passion was history. Stimulated by Moore’s encouragement and teaching, he became the president of the history society at the school, as well as vice president of the debating society and editor of the school magazine, The Lictor. In 1960, at the age of seventeen, Rodney left Guyana for the first time to start a degree at the University of the West Indies (UWI).

The book provides a sweeping history of the country’s economic experience of what can be described as the ‘socialist economic adventure’ of the 1970s and its replacement by the takeover of Jamaica’s economic policymaking into a forcible clientelist relationship with the International Financial Institutions of the 1980s and beyond.

Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished.