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

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