By Owei Lakemfa
ONLY a few songs had the kind of impact, Coat of Many Colours, the October, 1971 song by Dolly Paton, had on me. It talked about a poor kid whose parents could not afford to buy her a coat “way down in the fall’ and how her mother made her a coat from a box of rags “sewing every piece with love” while telling her the Biblical coat of many colours Joseph wore. She sang that “Although we had no money, I was rich as I could be.”
I was from a working class home and the song fitted me well. It was about morals, love, sacrifice, innovativeness, meeting basic needs, determination to change circumstances and trying to live a good life even when poor, while being dignified human beings. This is the summary of the Cuban story in the last six decades. The tiny country which is just 90 miles from the…
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