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Best of The Beat on Afropop: The Passing of Peter Tosh–30 Years After
Best of The Beat September 18, 2017
Best of The Beat on Afropop: The Passing of Peter Tosh–30 Years After
It is inconceivable that it has been 30 years since the world lost Peter Tosh. One of the three original members, with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, of the foundational reggae group the Wailers, Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh in 1944) was one of a kind: fierce, stubborn, opinionated, and single-mindedly insistent about equal rights and justice, African unity, anti-apartheid, and the legalization of herb.

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