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“Catch a Fire”
This award winning documentary/drama by acclaimed British-Bajan autuer Menelik Shabazz tells the story of Jamaican Baptist minister Paul Bogle, leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion 1865. This rebellion had a major impact on attitudes to race and empire in Victorian Britain, still present today. Paul Bogle is immortalised in the lyrics of many reggae artists like Bob Marley, Third World and Burning Spear.
MENELIK SHABAZZ | JAMAICA & U.K., 1995 | ENGLISH, 30 min