Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Sister Marie Ignatius Davies: 'the 'nun who nurtured reggae'


As a teenager growing up in Nottingham in the mid-1970s - there was a big Afro-Caribbean community and reggae was everywhere. It was fantastically exotic - against the background of freezing cold winters there was this sound wafting in from the Caribbean, very different to English life at the time. In a way that interest in the exotic is what led to me wanting to travel and eventually to become a foreign correspondent, a feeling that there was more life beyond the United Kingdom.
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