 |  | | | Rastafarianism | 23 Mar 2007 | | |
We probably know Rastafarianism best through Bob Marley – reggae, dreadlocks and the red, green and gold colours. However, Rastafari is a religion which was developed in Jamaica in the 1930s by the descendents of slaves who sought to make sense of their past. Rastafarians took the birth name of the former Ethiopian leader, Haile Selassie, who they believed had been the manifestation of a Black God.
Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah is a writer in Jamaica, and has been a Rastafarian for the last 3 decades. To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, she’s takes a look at her religion, beginning at the University of the West Indies.
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