Entertainment 14-01-2005 who: Bob Marley what: To be exhumed and reburied in Ethiopia where: Jamaica when: This year snippet: Rita Marley, the singer`s widow, "announced plans to rebury her husband in Shashamene, 150 miles south of Addis Ababa, where several hundred Rastafarians have lived since they were granted land there by the last emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie," explains The Independent. The Times explains that Marley`s beliefs played a part in his death. Doctors advised him to have a toe amputated because of a malignant melanoma but he refused "because Rastas believe that doctors are samfai: confidence men who cheat the gullible by pretending to have the power of witchcraft". The cancer spread to his brain and his lungs and he died in 1981, aged 36. [... more]

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