From Back-O-Wall to Tivoli Gardens
It was back in the 1950's that the government of Jamaica made plans to redevelopment the crime ruined and inhumane living conditions that was Back - O - Wall. A community given that name for it was populated by persons who were cast aside by society i.e Rastafarians, criminals, and the poor. Post Independence and under the leadership of the Minister of Development and Welfare, Edward Seaga, Back-O-Wall was developed into the widely praised model community of Tivoli Gardens.
Additional Knowledge:
BOOKS
Blood, Bullets And Bodies: Sexual Politics Below Jamaica’s Poverty Line Paperback by Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Edward Seaga: Clash of ideologies 1930-1980 by Edward Seaga
Edward Seaga: Hard Road to Travel, 1980-2008 by Edward Seaga
Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica by Deborah A. Thomas
Gangs of Jamaica, The Babylonian Wars by Thibault Ehrengardt
Mirror, Mirror: Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica by Rex Nettleford
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation by Deborah A. Thomas
Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972 by Obika Gray
Shower Posse: The Most Notorious Jamaican Crime Organization by Duane Blake
Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70: Internal Security in a Developing Country by Terry Lacey
Youth Violence And Organized Crime In Jamaica By Horace Levy
SEMI-ETHNOGRAPHIC BOOKS
Born Fi' Dead: A Journey Through the Jamaican Posse Underworld by Laurie Gunst
FICTIONAL BOOKS
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
For Nothing At All by Garfield Ellis
Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer
The Hills Were Joyful Together by Roger Mais
Up for Air: This Half Has Never Been Told! by Imani M. Tafari-Ama
POETRY
Lead in the Veins: Poetic Reflections on Life, Love and (In)justice by Imani M. Tafari-Ama
INVESTIGATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Report Western Kingston Commission of Enquiry 2016
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
The Effects of Drugs, Gangs and Fear of Crime on Attitudes About Democracy and Government in Jamaica by Luis Alberto Caraballo
The West Kingston/Tivoli Gardens Incursion in Kingston, Jamaica by Stephen Cordner, Michael S. Pollanen, Maria Cristina Mendonca and Maria Dolores Morcillo-Mendez
FILMS
Drug Lord - Christopher Coke: Jamaica’s Narcos Prince, (2018) Netflix Exclusive Series
Extraditing Coke, (2010), directed by Al Jazeera English
Four Days In May, (2018), directed by Deborah A. Thomas, Junior "Gabu” Wedderburn & Deanne M. Bell
The Incursion, (2017) directed by Sasha Lewis