Women were subservient, and everyone who wasn't Rasta was considered heathen. Outside of her home, Sinclair felt ostracized for being Rasta. At school, children taunted her for her dreadlocks ...

I was taught from a young age that a woman ... our hair in dreadlocks, and we would express no opinions. For a time, we were—or at least we appeared to be—the perfect Rasta family.

HOW TO SAY BABYLON: A Memoir, by Safiya Sinclair The unclean woman. It’s an archetype Safiya ... scorching memoir of a girlhood spent becoming the perfect Rasta daughter and an adolescence ...

Women were at the forefront of the mass protests ... in the capital Khartoum last month. "I will keep the Rasta (dreadlocks) until the regime falls." ...