About the Author

Helene Lee is a journalist for 'Liberation', specialising in the music of Africa and the Caribbean. Stephen Davis lives in Milton, Massachusetts.

Reviews

"Powerful historical and social forces come together in Lee's extraordinarily useful book. The First Rasta moves with a truth seeker's determination through the slums of Trenchtown and Jamaica's back country, revealing a dauntingly complex landscape and history in which oral history is often more reliable than the written record." -- Publishers Weekly "Incredible ... a spellbinding saga ... Lee's insightful combination of toughness and sensitivity is amazing." -- The Beat "The loose threads of Rasta history [are] impressively woven into a flag of green, red, and gold ... a clear-eyed political history." -- Kirkus Reviews