DID YOU KNOW???

That Bob Marley, was baptised Berhane Selassie (Light of the Trinity) by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church before his death!

Rasta movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the early 1930s, arising from an interpretation of Biblical prophecy. Rastas see themselves as conforming to a vision of how Africans should live, reclaiming what they see as a culture stolen from them when they were brought on slave ships to Jamaica, birthplace of the movement.

The name Rastafari comes from Ras (Duke) Tafari Makonnen, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I.

Rastafari is a new-religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as Jah.