The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism AUTH-12018340 ISBN13: 9781682601150

ISBN13: 9781682601150

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He is a Fellow of the British Academy

numerous topics of applied philosophy

The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism AUTH-12018340 ISBN13: 9781682601150Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the