The movement asked President Ruto to consider them in State job appointments, and to accord them rights as a minority an ...

Reggae music originated in Jamaica in the 1960s. Its focus on social justice, as well as Rastafarian spiritual themes, also resonated with other popular folk music around the world at the time, such ...

“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 Black Power movement, and the Rastafari movement. Many, including most Congressional Black Caucus members, said Garvey’s posthumous pardon serves not only as a correction of historical ...

Ras is an Amharic word equivalent to duke or prince. The Rastafari movement has strong roots in Ethiopia, which they believe to be the ultimate home of all Africans and the seat of Jah ...

Kingsley Ben-Adir played the titular role in the biopic 'Bob Marley: One Love'Image: Chiabella James The Rastafari movement takes its name from Selassie's original name, Ras Tafari Makonnen.

Since the 1960s journalists scholars and filmmakers have been examining the Rastafarian movement in an attempt to explain its origins and its core beliefs RasTa A Souls Journey tells the story of ...

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.

Alongside Bob Marley – the world's most recognised Rastafarian – this cultural and spiritual movement is the enduring global image of the Caribbean island. The red, green and gold colours ...

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 ...