Originating in Jamaica in the 1930s, Rastafari thrived as a popular protest of the black cultural resistance movement and flourished in later decades. It has been strongly nourished by the ...

Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen. Lij is translated as 'child' and serves to indicate that a youth ...

“Is this what the Rastafarian movement is about? Smoking weed?” I ask. He slants his head, smiles and says: “No. Rastafari is about Jah – Haile Selassie. A true Rastafari must smoke weed t ...

the Promised Land that Rastafari have been travelling to since the Rastafari movement originated in Jamaica in the 1930s. Repatriation is a cornerstone of their faith, though Ethiopians see ...

There is nothing heroic in this history. My issue is that Marley is neither the originator of reggae music nor the pioneer of the Rastafari movement. More than often his personality is advanced as ...

Don Letts reveals how the Rastafari movement helped Jamaica recover a lost identity after years of British colonial rule and had a profound effect on Jamaican music.

(Pic Credit: Supplied) A GHANAIAN King has declared legendary Reggae singer Sizzla Kalonji as the Rastafari Chief of Development for Repatriation to Ghana. Minister of Culture, Gender ...

Jendayi, who grew up in Eastville in the 1970s, said that she learned a lot about her African roots from the local Rastafari movement which helped her to form a sense of identity which she ...

Over the past six years, Robbie has co-curated with community intellectuals and elders a series of exhibitions–in Ethiopia, Jamaica and the UK–which have brought to light the histories and ...