Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia (Paperback)

In 1977, Bob Marley composed Exodus, a reggae masterpiece that evokes the return of Rastafari to Africa. Over the past 50 years, Rastafari have made the journey to Ethiopia, settling in the country as “repatriates”. This little-known history is told in Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia. Giulia Bonacci recounts, with sharpness and rigor, this amazing journey of Rastafari who left the Caribbean, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Exiting from the Babylon of the West and entering the Zion that is Ethiopia, the exodus has a Pan-African dimension that is significant to the present day. Despite facing complex challenges in their relations with the Ethiopian state and its people, mystical and determined Rastafari keep arriving to Shashemene, their Promised Land. Revealing personal trajectories, Giulia Bonacci shows that Rastafari were not the first black settlers in Ethiopia. She tracks the history of return over the decades, demonstrating that the utopian idea of return is also a reality. Exodus! is based on in-depth archival and print research, as well as on a wide range of oral histories collected in Ethiopia, Jamaica, Ghana and the USA. Previously unseen photographs illustrate the book.

General

Imprint:	University of the West Indies Press
Country of origin:	Jamaica
Release date:	May 2015
Authors:	Giulia Bonacci
Foreword by:	Elikia M’Bokolo
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	520
ISBN-13:	978-976-640-503-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	976-640-503-4
Barcode:	9789766405038

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