HAVANA, Cuba (IPS) – Long dreadlocks stuffed into trademark red, black, green and yellow tams (knitted caps), which sometimes carry a symbol of an Afro-Cuban religion or even a US flag, Bob Marley ...

Hundreds of Rastafarians came together last month in Jamaica, the birthplace of the movement, for the weeklong Rastafari Global Reasoning 2003. The official motto for the worldwide meeting, which ...

Their dreadlocked image and marijuana-laced mysticism are used to promote Jamaica as a tranquil tourist destination yet Rastafarians say they're treated as second-class citizens at home. The religion ...

A group of Rasta’s on Wednesday embarked on a big walk along Haile Selassie Road in Blantyre to raise funds for the roofing of their worship temple and the construction of a new primary school block ...

En 1948, l'empereur Hailé Sélassié avait offert aux rastas un territoire de 500 hectares à Sashamané, mais de ce territoire il ne reste plus aujourd'hui que 7 hectares où vivent 120 mille Rastas. Ce ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Attorney-at-law Marcus Goffe is upset that members of the Rastafari community who plant ganja for sacramental purposes are still being subjected to what he calls constant ...

Though dreadlocks and reggae music are the familiar symbols of the Rastafari religion, the lesser-known style of eating its followers adhere to is more telling of the belief system. To stay healthy ...

Bob Marley used to drink an Irish moss-based concoction every morning. This red seaweed, which does not exactly evoke the Caribbean, was introduced to Jamaica in the 17th century by Irish immigrant ...

« Exode ! […] Envoie-nous un autre frère Moïse ! Depuis l’autre bout de la Mer rouge » scandait Bob Marley, le roi du reggae, dans sa chanson intitulée « Exodus » de 1977. Membre du mouvement ...

L’acuité du regard d’une historienne sur la société mauricienne. C’est ce que partage Giulia Bonacci de l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) en France, en poste à l’Unité de recherches ...

Son couronnement, lors d’une fastueuse cérémonie le 2 novembre 1930, avait été un évènement d’envergure mondiale. Conformément à une tradition millénaire, l’Ethiopie, alors seul Etat africain à ne pas ...