It’s not simple to get to August Town, but it is easy. Anyone can take the road into this Kingston suburb, founded as a haven ...

In the 1979 song “Zimbabwe,” Marley calls on Africans to liberate Zimbabwe, which had been under British colonial rule.

1820—The first organized emigration of Blacks from the U.S. back to Africa occurs. Eighty-six free Blacks leave New York Harbor on a ship named the “Mayflower of Liberia.” The group lands on the West ...