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Roger Mais

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.Roger Mais was born on August 11th 1990 in Kingston Jamaica into a  brown middle class respectable middleclass family and came to mautrity in the 1930's. He entered Calabar High School but mad little of the certificate he obtained from the age of 17 years to his 30's he earned his living in a variety of jobs, officework, selling insurance, oveseer on a banana plantation as a reporter-photographer and a variety other jornalistic occupation.

Roger Mais launched his career as a journalist and contributor for the weekly newspaper. He wrote several plays, reviews and short stories for newspapers. He used this approach to reach his local audience and to primarily push for a nation identity and colonialism.

In early 1930 he began writing. He left Jamaica for the UK in 1952 but whilst in France in 1954 where he discovered that he had cancer. He returned to Jamaica attempting to finish a fourth novel but died before its completion in 1955.

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In Roger Mais’ Brother Man, Rastas were viewed in this way: The leading newspapers played up the angle that a community of bearded men in their midst, formed together into a secret cult, was a menace to public safety. People began writing letters to the press. All bearded men should be placed behind barbed wire. They should be publicly washed and shaved! They should be banished to Africa. They should be sterilized. They should be publicly flogged. They became identified with a certain political party. They should be denied the vote. They were, in fact, potential rapists and murderers all. In contemporary Jamaica, on the other hand, Rastas have come to represent an odd kind of respectability. Rasta values, bolstered by ital cuisine and a certain fastidious refusal of the latest trends and crazes, are perceived to be wholesome, old-fashioned, and desirable in the world of bling we live in today.

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Brother Man is Roger Mais's best novel because it reflects all of the author's varied talents. Here, good and evil in the Jamaican slums are brought to life. The book details the origins of the Rastafarian cult and the hero's Christ-like walk against a chorus of ordinary people.