La mémoire au service des luttes : Bob Marley

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La mémoire au service des luttes : Bob Marley

Il y a 40 ans, le 11 mai 1981, Robert Nesta Marley plus connu sous le nom de Bob Marley décédait. Né le 6 février 1945 près de Nine Miles en Jamaïque, Bob Marley est un métis d’une mère afro-caribéenne, Cedella Booker (elle-même chanteuse) et d’un père blanc, Norval Sinclair Marley, d’origine anglaise né en

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