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Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

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From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has grow to be a global presence. Whilst the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily excited by its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents a very powerful vehicle of Rastafari’s international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari’s enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a very important website to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also an important to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism.

Based on in the past undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, america, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network–including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James–revealing Rastafari’s entrenchment within the making of Pan-Africanism within the postindependence period.

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