Bustamante: the politics of style
When politicians try they tend to overdo it, think jiggy-ancients Robert Pickersgill and Mike Henry. Yet they had former Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante to inspire them…
Source: National Library of Jamaica
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Alexander Bustamante’s amazing revolutionary afro, 1953
They made Busta Chief Minister of Jamaica and just nine years later in 1962, we got Independence. With this hair, the British had no choice.
After travelling the world, including working as a policeman in Cuba and as a dietician in a New York City hospital, he returned to Jamaica in 1932 and became a leader [...]
