This page provides an overview of the Rastafari movement including statistics, practices and history. Rastafari is a young, Africa-centred religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following ...

Exploring the origins of Rastafari in the slave trade. The movement [Rastafari] views Ethiopia as the promised land, the place where Black people will be repatriated through a wholesale exodus from ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently ...

Far far across the valley comes the sound of an almighty procession Zion bound. Chanting chanting Iyabinghi drums yunder and yant the call to redemption, Babylon doomed to fall, Iyudgmant to come ...

This rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrates the Rastafari's expanding ranks in Kenya, according to members of this congregation. Kenya only ...

Filmed in Toronto and Jamaica, this DVD is part history lesson and part personal journey, as Toronto youth worker and Nyabinghi drummer Nation Cheong seeks a deeper knowledge of Rastafari, putting his ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs. The ...