HOW ISHMAEL SHABAZZ & DAVID BUDDAN TALKED ABOUT AGRICULTURE IN BELIZE IN THE 80S!

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HOW ISHMAEL SHABAZZ & DAVID BUDDAN TALKED ABOUT AGRICULTURE IN BELIZE IN THE 80S! By Bilal Morris This classic documented show featuring two of Belize's most respected Belizean legends, the late Ishmael Omar Shabazz and David Alexander Buddan who both passed away in the same year of 2014; comes to us here at “Belizean Legends” with one of the most heartfelt memories of the way they are remembered as two of the most hard working Belizeans in the diaspora in the 1980s . That it strikes a very important chord with yours truly who had come to know them both in the best of times. And It also resurrects the memories of the laughter and joy that was shared between them who crossed each other’s path at what time or the other despite their age differences, beliefs and varied opinions either from politics to religion, or from the different directions that they both undertook in their lives. When Patrick Barrow surprised me that he had this classic interview with the late “Brother Shabazz”, he knew that it was a priceless piece of historical real estate that only someone as dedicated as him would possess, and so shared it immediately with me. But he never revealed that the host of the show in the person of the late Belizean broadcaster David Buddan was the one that brought out some of the best qualities that defined the personality of Brother Shabazz and his historic work and life that he lived in Belize and as a Belizean immigrant in the Belizean diaspora. The vintage tapes were transferred immediately, and it was baffling to see the quality work that Barrow and Buddan had embarked on in creating this entertaining and educational show on the now defunct free access cable television that they called, “Belize Caye Connection”. But we here at this documentary series was not aware of Barrow’s visual arts collection that he had presented now in the new name, “Belizemusicworld”, that showcases these videos and music library for a worldwide audience until we were blessed with the “Shabazz : Buddan” interview in such a memorable moment when history was being made in the Los Angeles Belizean Community in the 1980s. Not only were Shabazz and Buddan making history in the 1980s as movers and shakers of the Belizean community. But they also became an intricate part of the creation of the “Belize-Caribbean Pulse” radio show on KPFK 90.7 FM. That it was Brother Shabazz being the founder himself of the “Belize Rural Economic Development of Agriculture through Alliance” (BREDAA) that later attracted the sharp broadcasting intellect of Radio Belize’s “Rockadelic Rocker” to not only suggested the name of the radio show in one of BREDAA’s meetings, but also hosted the first ever radio show in 1985 for BREDAA that at first was called, “Belize Music Hour”. Then the moment of collaboration continued through yours truly public relations work for BREDAA in introducing the dynamic David Buddan to the rest of the class act of brothers and sisters of the grassroots Belizean organization. Prior to that in 1984, Buddan had initially made his acquaintance with the Los Angeles Muslims of Belize (LAMBS) that again was the brainchild of the legendary Brother Shabazz as a contributing writer to LAMBS’s “Belizean Focus” newspaper. The connection between these two before this feature was aired; was made a couple of years before. Such electric cross cultural pollination within the framework of Belizean culture, politics, and entertainment in the Belizean diaspora as the one presented here in this feature brought the brotherhood of man to be possible between Belize’s Ishmael Shabazz and David Buddan. It has got to be mentioned in respect to their memory that they had given so much to a country and people. Their paths that crossed here in this discussion on Belize and its food security was purely organic and conducive in remembering their friendship and personalities as two beautiful people that yours truly was so blessed to have come to know. And so without any further ado, we here at “Belizean Legends” bring to you this most warm and informative conversation between a renowned Belizean historian and activist, Brother Ishmael Omar Shabazz, and a renowned Belizean broadcast Journalist, David Alexander Buddan. It is most important to state that the memory of their good works in dedication to the Belizean people be always remembered.