Article Title: Reggae and World Music Awards

Excerpt: Ky-Mani Marley then collected his Producer's Respect Award, setting the stage for soca artiste Jaydene to open up the performances of the night. It came as little surprise when Dean Fraser and Mutabaruka took home the IRAWMA trophies for Best Instrumentalist and Best Poet next.

Excerpt: Ky-Mani wasn't the only Marley who had a good night. His brothers Stephen and Ziggy Marley also took home trophies. Stephen won the awards for Best CD - Mind Control, as well as Songwriter of the Year, and Ziggy with the Marcus Garvey Humanitarian Award, "for charitable efforts through his URGE organisation". They were however not present at the event.

Article Title: Cedella Marley-Booker to Get Order of Distinction

Excerpt: Prime Minister Bruce Golding, through Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Ken Baugh, this morning (April 28) announced that Cedella Marley-Booker, will be posthumously awarded the Order of Distinction.

Excerpt: Recapturing her accomplishments, the Deputy Prime Minister said Mrs. Booker was always motivated to better herself and to look after her children, 'Though she might have been a victim of tragedy, difficulties and poverty, she was never a victim of boredom as she struggled to always improve herself ', Dr Baugh concluded

Article Title: Marley Tribute Concert

Excerpt: Performing in Jamaica for the first time in five years, a confident Ziggy Marley cruised through songs from his Grammy winning album, `Love is My Religion` exuding a level of self-assurance that showed he had long since stepped out of his father’s shadow. Although not readily familiar to the audience, lyrically potent songs like `Black Cat` and `Still the Storms` were well received and the cheers grew when he delivered his declaration of independence, `True to Myself` from the 2003 album `Dragonfly.`

Excerpt: `It’s been a while,` he said acknowledging the applause of the crowd. `But I never forget yard and yard never forget I.`

Excerpt: The audience showed a lot of love for the nostalgia and still had much left over later in the show when Ziggy and Stephen took the stage again, this time joined by their younger brothers Ky-mani, Julian and Damian. Opening with `Smile Jamaica`, the brothers took turns singing lead as they made their way through their father’s treasure chest of hits like `Rebel Music`, `Rat Race`, `Exodus`, `War` and of course, the anthem of the occasion, `Africa Unite.

Article Title: Marley magic at Smile Jamaica

Excerpt: Something magical happens when the Marley boys share a stage. It was as if Julian, Ziggy, Damion, Stephen and Ky-Mani were channelling various personas of their father Bob, who the world hails as one of its greatest performers, inside the Smile Jamaica Africa Unite concert, held last Saturday on James Bond Beach in Oracabessa, St Mary.

Article Title: Continent Divided: "Africa Unite"

Excerpt: "I know [my father] would have said, 'It's not about my 60th birthday; it's about the unity of Africa.' This is the more important message.'"

Excerpt: "We had to make sure that this wasn't about the Marleys," Ziggy said. "It had to ... have more meaning. So that's one of the reasons why that [Bongo Tawney] angle is taken. We're kids; this man is coming from the roots of [Rastafari]. This man is the real, real deal from the roots. We have to show that to delve deeper into this journey. ... It's about the deeper journey of the roots of Rastafari, the connection to Ethiopia, the unity of Africa."

Excerpt: MARLEY: The understanding that you can't hide; you can't run away from that fact. The fact that the Rastafarian movement has made Ethiopia a visible entity in the world. We promote Ethiopia all the time — red, gold and green. I think them just coming around, and the fear that they had of the resurgence of love of the monarchy, I think that fear is gone. That's not what we're about; we're not about anything political. Governments fear when they're going to lose power, and because we uphold His Majesty Haile Selassie I, they had a fear of that love coming back for the monarchy and there would be political problems in Ethiopia. But once they realize this isn't a political agenda, then it become more cool. So it's just a better understanding of what the Rastafarian movement is and it's not a threat to any political structure.

Excerpt: "Without a thought, it don't happen. Before man go to the moon, him have to think, "Maybe we can go to the moon." So the whole idea of what we're doing here is trying to reignite the spark, to reignite the consciousness of this concept, so it becomes thoughts, then it becomes words, then it becomes action. This is not a political movement; it's a consciousness movement. And once enough consciousness is raised, then the consciousness pass onto other people until it reach — let's call them the "leaders" — who can make it possible. We need to raise consciousnesses first before we raise the actual action of it.""

Article Title: Bob Marley: A prophet without honour in his homeland

Excerpt: Miss Allison was born in London to a Jamaican mother and developed a love for reggae music - Marley's in particular - from early. "He has such a powerful message and spirit. I don't know anyone who really listened to his music and was not touched in some way," she said.

Excerpt: "I think it's very strange the way you guys celebrate the occasion here. To be honest, it's like you guys don't know what a legend really is. Back home, his birthday is like a huge carnival with street parades, Bob Marley rides and everything. It really is a great tourist attraction," she said.

Article Title: Marley film to debut at Carib

Excerpt: An independent documentary film maker, Black has won critical success with her works such as H-2 Worker, Life and Debt and the yet to be released Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's Vision - all of which focus on Jamaica.

Excerpt: Black has also produced and directed music videos for artistes such as Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Buju Banton, Snow and Anthony B, among others. In 1999, Stephanie Black directed and produced a 30-minute documentary on the making of Chant Down Babylon a Bob Marley tribute album produced by Stephen Marley featuring Lauryn Hill, Busta Rhymes, Erykah Badu, among others.

Excerpt: Black was asked by the Marley family to direct the film: Africa Unite. They gave her creative freedom in its production. A lover of Marley's music, Black was happy to accept. "The whole experience was great," she said. "I was very excited to go to Ethiopia, it was a privilege to be there to see a free concert of 350,000 persons in Meskel Square where a lot of brutality occurred. It was very symbolic," she said.

Article Title: Marley Brothers First Ever Jamaican Performance

Excerpt: Never before on Jamaica soil, have Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani and Damian Marley appeared together on a single stage, on a single night. The sheer magnitude of the combined concert event is further enhanced by their participation.

Excerpt: Collaborating for the Smile Jamaica - Africa Unite stage is truly symbolic considering the significance of Smile Jamaica. In December 1976, Bob Marley, headlined the show at the National Heroes Park in Kingston. Despite being attacked the night before, he bravely and defiantly stepped out and said he would only do one song, but ended up working the stage for ninety minutes. Persons described the atmosphere of that show as “buoyant and positive”.

Excerpt: Other performers sharing in the moment include: The Melody Makers (the Marley sisters Cedella and Sharon), the seminal The I Three (Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt), Black Uhuru, Rasta talents Capleton, Taurrus Riley, Richie Spice, Spragga Benz, Lutan Fyah, Coco Tea and Alborosie, African Queens Etana and Queen Ifrica, musicians Dean Fraser and Ernie Ranglin, new comer Javaughn and sound systems Stone Love and Gully Bank.

Article Title: Africa Unites On DVD

Excerpt: In celebration of Marley’s life and message, the Bob Marley and the Rita Marley Foundations started an annual concert in 2005 aimed at promoting African unity. The first concert took place over 12 hours in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and attracted more than 300,000 people.

Excerpt: Ziggy Marley, the eldest son of Bob and Rita Marley, together with other members of the Marley clan took part in the performance and film. Ziggy Marley, who himself is a Grammy-winning reggae artist (responsible for the buoyant 1989 hit “Tomorrow People,” along with backup band the Melody Makers), lends narration to the film.

Excerpt: “We continue to find ways outside of music to get across what we want to get across, whether it’s through movies and DVDs or other means,” Marley said of Tuff Gong. “Two or three years from now, you’ll see even more creative things from us … and more films.”

Article Title: Bob Marley and sons take top 3 spots on reggae chart

Excerpt: More than 26 years after his death, Bob Marley continues to sell records, topping Billboard's year-end Top Reggae Albums chart.

Excerpt: Carrying on the family tradition, Marley's sons Stephen and Damian claim the No. 2 and 3 rungs on the year-end reggae albums chart with "Mind Control" (Ghetto Youths/Tuff Gong/Universal Republic/UMRG) and "Welcome to Jam Rock" (Ghetto Youths/Tuff Gong/Universal Republic/UMRG), respectively. The brothers also rank at Nos. 3 and 4 on the Top Reggae Artists year-end chart.

Article Title: African Film Festival - Africa Unite

Excerpt: Series: The 14th New York African Film Festival [Apr. 4 - 12 2007] Director: Stephanie Black, Country: Ethiopia, Release: 2007

Excerpt: The "Africa Unite" concert was performed in front of more than 350,000 people, gathered in the historic Meskel Square of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to celebrate what would have been Bob Marley's 60th birthday. The 12-hour concert, featuring a host of internationally acclaimed artists, is interwoven throughout this film, illuminating the global influence of a man who defined his own aim as "spreading the message of unity and equality, to end the needless suffering of mankind."