To Rastafarians, Empress Menen of Ethiopia is Mother Mary. The wife of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, was a devout believer in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and a benevolent figure ...

Poet Safiya Sinclair grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in a devout Rastafari family. Her father, a reggae singer, ruled the home, dictating what to eat, how to dress and who she could or couldn't ...

Filmmaker Bianca Nyavingi Brynda explores the roots of the Rastafari culture from a female perspective, examining the movement's various incarnations in Jamaica, Guyana, South America and Canada.

Rastafari in the new millennium : Rastafari at the dawn of the fifth epoch / Michael Barnett -- Rastafari and the coming of age : the routinization of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica / Barry ...

(AP) The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica’s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the sprawling Bobo ...

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