LEGACY OF THE LION KING It may be 30 years since his death, but Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia remains a controversial figure. To a million Rastafarians he's a deity. Others have a less benign view

The Sunday Herald | August 28, 2005| | Copyright

WHAT do Evelyn Waugh and Bob Marley have in common? Not a lot on the face of it. The acerbic English author died in 1966, just as Marley was starting out on the continent-spanning journey that would put him and Jamaica on the musical map. Moreover, Waugh was a chronicler of the jazz age rather than the rock age and a snob into the bargain. A product of his class, he would have found little sympathy with a black musician from a former British colony who wore his hair in dreadlocks and advocated drug use. There is one thing, however, which binds the two men:

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