The ALL D Training Camp was set to kick off at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday morning at G C Foster College for Sport in St. Catherine. There would be two sessions daily with meals provided three times per day. On arrival at GC, I settled into the designated coaches’ quarters and awaited the arrival of St. Elizabeth Technical football Coach Wendell Downswell and Team manager Mike Ollivierre, also of STETHS.

In 1995 the Zambian national football engaged Jamaica in a friendly international against the senior national team at the National Stadium in Kingston. In November of the same year, the Jamaica senior team journeyed into the Cultural ’homeland’ of Africa (Zambia) as part of a marketing tour that would take the national senior team to every continent over the next four years. The Zambian tour was significant for other reasons. Davies and Earle One Love tell us that:

THE POWERS OF BLACKSKIN PIGMENTATION is based upon Intuitive (original) Philosophical, Physiological and Psychological Research initiated (and conducted) by the Author while enrolled at the GRADUATE FACULTY of the NEW SCHOOL for SOCIAL RESEARCH located on Manhattan Island, New York City (1979). THE POWERS OF BLACKSKIN PIGMENTATION is a psycho-philosophical presentation of a LIFE TIME investigation into the nature and function(s) of the PIGMENT CELLS in the Sense Organ known as SKIN.