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The First Rasta

Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism

by Hélène Lee

A biography of Leonard Howell by the French journalist Hélène Lee, first published in French in 1999 and based in part on interviews with surviving members of the Pinnacle commune. It recovers the life of the man often called the first Rasta and the persecution of his community.

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