What The Critics Say About Brotherman;

Rastaman vibration by Annie Paul Brotherman by Roger Mais (Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN1-4050-6296-7, 184 pp) states it’s interesting to read the audacious novel today, when Rastas and things Rastafarian have acquired such cultural charisma that their image, carried abroad by stars such as Bob Marley and other dreadlocked musicians, is now routinely used to advertise Jamaica as a tourist destination. Brother Man — recently reissued by Macmillan (the original publishers of many of Mais’s books) to mark its 50th anniversary — was the first Jamaican novel to portray a Rastafarian protagonist in positive terms. Writing in the early 1950s, a mere 50 years ago, Roger Mais captured the way Rastas were viewed then.