This is a version of an entry I wrote for the W.E.B. Dubois institute's Dictionary of Afro-Latin American Biography.
Dizzy, Ras (1932-2008), painter, poet and itinerant Rastafarian activist, was probably born in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica on 19 December 1932. His given name, according to his passport, was Albert Livingstone, but he also used Birth Livingstone, Clive Gillespie and Birch Lin…