Forty years ago Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was overthrown. It was a blow for all Rastafarians, who revere him as a god - and for those Rastafarians who had emigrated to Ethiopia ...

Forty years ago Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was overthrown. It was a blow for all Rastafarians, who revere him as a god - and for those Rastafarians who had emigrated to Ethiopia ...

Now he’s one of 600-800 Rastafarians living in Shashamene, an intriguing and beguiling place and the heart of the modern day religion. Two hundred and fifty kilometers from Addis Ababa ...

Forty years ago Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was overthrown. It was a blow for all Rastafarians, who revere him as a god - and for those Rastafarians who had emigrated to Ethiopia ...

Now he’s one of 600-800 Rastafarians living in Shashamene, an intriguing and beguiling place and the heart of the modern day religion. Two hundred and fifty kilometers from Addis Ababa ...

Tree, as he now wants to be called - "new life, new name," he says - packed his bags and headed for a small village in southern Ethiopia to join a small community of Rastafarians - whose faith he ...

Now he’s one of 600-800 Rastafarians living in Shashamene, an intriguing and beguiling place and the heart of the modern day religion. Two hundred and fifty kilometers from Addis Ababa ...

Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974. He is of central importance to Rastas, many of whom regard him as the Second Coming of Jesus and, thus, God incarnate in human form.

The group of over a dozen persons demanded that respect be given to the rights of their community by exempting Rastafarians from any type of prosecution under the law when smoking cannabis ...

He is affiliated with Highlander Research & Education Center. The week of July 23, 2023, thousands of Rastafarians, known for their dreadlocks and for treating cannabis as a sacrament, will gather ...

By Ashley Southall For Rastafarians like Richard Chung, a leather craftsman with a bundle of salt-and-pepper dreadlocks, marijuana has long been both sacred and a livelihood. Those dual uses made ...

But as Ethiopia welcomes hundreds of thousands of revelers for a month of festivities in honor of the Jamaican reggae legend, many here view Rastafarians — some of whom settled in Ethiopia ...