Pilgrims & Pilgrimages - Christianity, Africa - Travel Essays & Descriptions, African Travel Photography, Africa - Travel - Pictorial Works, African Diaspora (outside U.S.) - Caribbean & Latin America, Ethiopia - Travel, Social Sciences - General & Miscel
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Overview
To Rastas, Ethiopia is a spiritual sanctuaty - a dreamscape that transcends physical geogfraphy. A Rasta's pilgrimage takes us to the place of beginnings: of the Blue Nile's headwaters; of Olduvai George, where the earliest human remains were found; of a river, the Jama, by whose banks the Jamaicans' anscestors, kidnapped and enslaved, began their killing journey to the West Indies. Ethiopia is the homeland of Emperor Haile Selassie I, the Rastafarian Messiah, who granted land to Jamaicans for resettlement. Rastas recognize Ethiopia as a place of returning, regaining, belonging: The fulfilment of a promise. They see repatriation to Ethiopia as a spiritual mandate and an earthly imperative.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2003
Publisher
San Francisco : Pomegranate Communications, c1998.
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780764908941