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Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia
Giulia Bonacci
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Description for Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia
Paperback. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 966.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
ISBN
9789766405038
SKU
V9789766405038
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About Giulia Bonacci
Giulia Bonacci is a historian of Africa and its Diasporas. She is a researcher at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in France. Her research on the Back to Africa movement, the social history of Pan Africanism and the Rastafari movement has taken her to many sites around the Black Atlantic. In addition to using the classical materials of ... Read more
Reviews for Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia
Gold winner in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. “The strength of this text is its multifaceted focus on the political, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions of Ethiopianism and pan-Africanism. The author includes detailed reference to one of the striking outcomes, the establishment of a pan-Africanist home at Shashemene, 250 miles from Addis ... Read more