NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Dressed in a red turban and black robe, Douglas Okello bowed and gazed at the portrait of the former Ethiopian emperor pinned up in his one-room mud shack in Nairobi’s Kibera ...

Despite its humble origins in 1930s Jamaica, Rastafarianism has evolved into a global liberation movement. Rastafarianism’s impact on popular culture has been phenomenal, its message of resistance ...

Samson in the Bible famously drew his power from his locks, but modern day Christians have an uneasy relationship with locks AS A YOUNG boy and teenager I used to attend church on a Sunday and listen ...

Rastafarianism developed in Jamaica in the 1930s among working-class black people. Bob Marley helped spread the Rastafarian message It began in part as a social stand against whites and the ...

Core beliefs: That the white world is a godless Babylon, and that black people will eventually embark on an exodus to Africa to achieve salvation. Oh, and that smoking cannabis is a mystical route to ...

I have followed with delight the ongoing debate about two teenagers who were denied admission to Achimota School because they declined to cut their Rasta hair. In my candid opinion, why should such an ...

Nowadays, the way one looks can still be an obstacle. In Malta, as in the rest of the world, Rastafarians are victims of discrimination. But as long as you cannot recognise them, they are tolerated.

Group says theirs is a religion like Christianity and Islam, with strict practices and beliefs, adding that not everyone sporting dreadlocks and chanting 'Jah' is a Rastafarian. What can take place in ...

Being exalted can be "overwhelming" says the revered frontman as he prepares to release "The People's Key," the band's first album in four years. By Drew Tewksbury Bright Eyes is back from the dead.