Liber XXIII · Rastafari
Chapter VIII
Rastafari Today
7 min readCoral Gardens 1963: Bad Friday and the Persecution of RastafariThe Coral Gardens incident of April 1963: the violence near Montego Bay, the Bad Friday round-up of Rastafari, decades of memory and Jamaica's 2017 apology.8 min readRastafari Today: A Global Movement, Its Debates and RightsRastafari today: numbers in Jamaica and worldwide, Shashamane and repatriation, legal fights over ganja and dreadlocks, and women's voices in the faith.7 min readShashamane: The Rastafari Settlement and Return to EthiopiaShashamane and Rastafari repatriation: the emperor's land grant, the Ethiopian World Federation, the 1961 Mission to Africa and the settlers today.