Burning Spear: Farover (Radio)***
Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 29 May 1982
TWO YEARS on from his last collection finds Winston Rodney, the African teacher, aka Burning Spear, relating the same universal message of cultural education through the direct influence of Jamaican prophet and national hero Marcus Josiah Garvey.
Total word count of piece: 384
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