In 2023, a Hollywood production greenlighted at the heart of the Marley estate set in motion the most significant mainstream reckoning with Bob Marley’s life since his death in 1981. What unfolded across that year — in Kingston’s studios, on Grammy stages, along Jamaica’s resurgent north coast, and in diaspora living rooms from London to Toronto — was not merely commercial machinery. It was a civilisation taking stock of one of its most enduring moral voices.
