Black Americans have never really been that connected to Africa as with much of the sentiments in Marley’s music (and in Reggae generally). They were never “daydreaming of Africa” or anything much more than acceptance by white America. Freedom for them was, therefore, more about the right to spend their money in white-owned stores and to escape the ‘burden’ of segregation. Reggae has always been more about roots, opposition and resistance, and a kinship with the ‘motherland’ that Black Americans seem to lack in any significant degree. It explains why freedom fighters from Africa to Poland can still connect with the ideas of self-determination inherent in Marley’s music. One love.