“We Stand for Black Livity!”: Trodding the Path of Rastafari in Ghana
Rastafari is a Pan-African socio-spiritual movement and way of life that was created by indigent Black people in the grip of British colonialism in 1930s Jamaica. Although Rastafari is often studied as a Jamaican phenomenon, I center the ways the movement has articulated itself in the Ghanaian polit...
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 3 |
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Rastafari
B Pan-African B Ghana B Jamaica B trodding the path B livity |
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