Journalist: Is the message of Rastafari that Jamaicans should go back to Africa?
Bob: Yes, forward to Africa. Not back! And that black man shall rule d’earth, one government!
It’s coming, wait 2052
Si ata nyinyi akina Ndura Waruinge walimpa grandeur vision ati mtarule Kenya lakini Michuki akawaonyesha njia ingine.
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the first person to push that idea. Followers of Garvey are called Garveyites.
[SIZE=5]Marcus Garvey[/SIZE]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/07421a5a5310ddcdd381e6257f7b2d23d665f370.jpgMarcus Garvey ©
Rastafari has its roots in the philosophy of Marcus Garvey.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on the 17th of August 1887, in Jamaica. His teachings of black self empowerment are credited as being the sources behind the founding of the religion.
Although Marcus Garvey never actually followed Rastafari or believed in it, he is considered to be one of the religion’s prophets, because it was his ideologies that eventually grew into Rastafari.
He believed that all black people should return to their rightful homeland Africa, and was heavily involved in promoting the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which he founded in 1914.
In the 1920s Garvey organised the black nationalist movement in America. A year later he had almost one million followers.
The black nationalist leader became an inspiration to black people all over the world and although he taught people to be proud of their race, he also offended other black leaders with his ideas of separatism within races.
Garvey’s powerful speeches (“Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will!”) gained him numerous supporters.
Many people believe that what Marcus Garvey said in 1920, (“Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is at hand”), came true in 1930, when Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned the new Emperor of Ethiopia, and became known as Emperor Haile Selassie.
It is after the crowning of Selassie that the Rastafarian movement officially began.
Kenyatta used to quote him alot
Hawa wanawake wazungu walikeketwa na maina njenga?asking for a friend.
But practise the opposite.
He did. Rastafarians love Jomo Kenyatta.
The UNIA [SIZE=1]united negro improvement association[/SIZE] flag and the Kenyan flag are somewhat similar. 3 main colors in both. Red, green, black. I wonder if the Kenyan flag was designed based on Garvey philosophy
The UNIA flag
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_the_UNIA.svg/1200px-Flag_of_the_UNIA.svg.png
The Kenyan flag
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Kenya.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png
You mean macho nyanya :oops:
burning spear
According to biographer Jeremy Murray-Brown in his 1972 effort, Kenyatta: A biography, the founding father kept the red, green and gold Ethiopian flag in his room at 75 Castle Road in 1931 England -a year after Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor having resisted colonization by Fascist Italy.
Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was a rastafarian. Now you know
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