Word: busta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more sharply caught than Jamaican Premier Norman Manley, 68, who had staked his reputation on federation. He underestimated the strength of his old foe, Sir Alexander Bustamante, leader of Jamaica's Labor Party, which sees federation as a hindrance rather than a help to Jamaican aspirations. At 78, Busta sometimes rambles a bit, dreamily reliving his days of street-level anticolonialism. But his bright young organizers quickly saw that Manley's more-stability, more-investment arguments aimed at the middle class produced less vote power than songs, rhythm and sheer noise aimed at the 93% of Jamaicans...
Freedom story was telling all about But nobody tell it to me; Is only Busta, is only Busta, Is only Busta tell...
Above the waving arms and shuffling feet, Busta would call: "We will be ruled by ourselves, not by Trinidadians, Barbadians, Saint Kittsians or whatever...