Another Tam Lin

My other favorite version of Tam Lin is "Tam Lyn Retold," an electro-reggae updating of the Tam Lin story by Benjamin Zephaniah and Eliza Carthy, with Simon Emmerson and Transglobal Underground. It was released in 2007, six years too early to be the tale of Muhammed Sillah, pictured below, but perhaps fairy magic grants it prescience?




Muhammed Sillah, an outspoken critic of the government of Gambia, fears for his life if he is deported from Canada

Yes: in this version, instead of a captive of...