Searching for Identity: Jamaican Judicial Decisions after Fifty Years of Independence

摘要

Norman Manley, one of Jamaica's greatest advocates and one of its founding fathers, said, with his usual oratorical brilliance, at the time of Jamaica's independence: And now I am going to speak to you about the challenge of this time as we close one book of history and open another. We could foresee the end of the first. The second ending we cannot foresee. Comrades, it is one thing to become free; it is another to build a real nation. It is our tragedy today that where history has placed power and leadership in the land, it has not placed tongues to rouse the people to the greatness of the times. It has not raised up a voice among them who could rise to the occasions of these days; who could lift up the new dynamic which would be alive from one end of the land to the other.