When I look at the following and the full story can be read here it make want too laugh but that would not be appropriate. As you can se it's full of great sadness, but it is the lies that's offensive. I can not give a full account of all that happened at the meeting to buy the farmhouse in Eastern Zimbabwe in 1982. One thing I can say without any reservation, I objected o the buying of the farm, simply because I saw Black British, Afro Caribbean Rastaman and you can call them any garbage you want. When I saw the vibes in the meeting I withdrew my self from the meeting with one request, and that was too put me on the next flight back to London. Yes I the Ras ask for the next flight out of Africa and I woke up early next morning a repeated my request. As far as I was concern rather that than to become a Neo Colonist and I still feel the same way today. Can you imagine Black British, Afro Caribbean Rastaman calling Black African squatters in their own land. To talk about tragically misunderstanding, the only thing that was tragically misunderstood was the understand of the liberation struggle.
What took place in Zim was the Black British, Afro Caribbean Rastaman bringing back the mentality of their colonial forefathers back to African continent. Misty found gold in Zimbabwe, (the dollar had valve) but they reacted in the same manner as their European fathers did. (The above is in response to the following)
(Having endured a most challenging year, when Misty bought a farmhouse in Eastern Zimbabwe in 1982, they thought they were fulfilling the Rasta dream of repatriation. Africa, Misty's great love, has proved the band's greatest inspiration - and has taught them some of their harshest lessons. Their ideal of re-creating the Southall Peoples Unite community in the motherland proved too hasty. Farm workers had squatted the land when the old owner left the property and, tragically misunderstanding Misty's intention to encourage them to remain, one of their leaders killed himself. Turning the farm over to local people, Misty started a short-lived Peoples Unite Zimbabwe. Their experiences inspired the album 'Musi-O-Tunya'. Ultimately, the band decided to focus on extensive touring of the continent. Misty would not talk openly about what happened in Ghana, because the day Duxie died there was an argument between himself and Poko. It was not Duxie's death that troubled Poko, it was his mother saying one good son me have and him dead. I was there when she said it, but it took many years before a band member told me the way dem buried Duxie you would not bury a dog like that.
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Over the next decade, Misty never stopped working, across Europe, in Africa, Japan and the Middle East. Content with spreading the message, recording seemed less vital. But this new union with Real World, their first recording venture outside of their own Peoples Unite label, is well-starred; Misty has a long association with Real World's WOMAD festival, having played their first show at London's ICA with Zairean superstar, Kanda Bongo Man, back in 1983. On a level, this recording is also a tribute to Duxie, who fulfilled his dream of ending his days in Africa, too young. Many of these tracks, like 'New Day', 'Dreadful Dread' and 'Musi-O-Tunya', were his compositions. His dynamism and spirit live on in these songs and in Misty's future contributions to the struggle.
