Bob Marley’s nostalgic song of domestic intimacy and communal survival in fabled Trench Town, “No Woman, No Cry,” functions, I propose, as a decidedly ironic frame for Rita Marley’s iconoclastic autobiography.
Kamau was born on 11 May 1930 to Edward Hilton Brathwaite and his wife Beryl Emmeline, at the “Round House”, Bay Street, Barbados, the first of five children of the union.