Key words

Africa

Babylon: city of Mesopotamia, symbolises the evil for the Rastas.

Belief, believer

Bible

Blacks

Bob Marley

Chosen ones

Dignity

Fight

Foundation: a principle, an idea, a fact on which the movement is based.

Haile Selassie: (“power of the Trinity”) Emperor of Ethiopia, God incarnate for the Rastas.

Ideology

Jah: name for God (Haile Selassie) in the Rastafarian movement.

Jamaica

Leonard P. Howell

Marcus Garvey

Power, authority

Prophecy, preacher

Rastafari: from Amharic Ras, “Head” and Tafari, “fearless one”.

Rastas

Reggae

Repatriation: movement of return to their own country, here Africa and Ethiopia.

Slavery

Spirituality

The Pinnacle: the highest point, here the first rasta community.

Unification

Wisdom

Antoine