[align=justify]"We believe in a 13-month year. We follow the Julian calendar, which is Ethiopian. We have 28 days in every month, no more. So January is the 13th month and January 7 is the birth of the earth," Kassa, a priest, explains.[/align]

[align=justify]The official name for Bobo Camp, also referred to as Zion Hill, is the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress Church of Salvation. Their motto, which is written in a combination of Marcus Garvey and Rastafarian colours - green, black, red and gold - reads: 'Freedom, Redemption and International Repatriation' ..."[/align]

For the Bobo Shantis, Christmas comes in January (please click here to read the story)(please click here to read the story)






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Iremember the Bobo Shanti in Bull Bay, and i remember that certain times of the year, rastas from abroad usually visit this area, why was this and does this still happen?.

Is the bobo shantiincreasing or are they decreasing in size?.

i known that as bobo dreads, there are certain questions which are considered rude to ask, however i am just curious to find out more about what's happening.

This is very interesting...

It's been in the back of my mind for a very long time that the world should be following a 13 month calendar instead of the one we currently have.

The Rastafarian movement - and there seem to be 2-3 varieties - is certainly interesting in that despite having been transported to the West, these particular Africans refuse to bow to any European image of The Creator and see The Creator in their own image (as indeed most other races do, and as The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey recommended that we do some 90 years or so ago).

Ironically and sadly, I understand that there are still countries in West Africa where there remain huge roadside images of some Eurpoean impostor purporting to be the historical figure now known as Jesus Christ.

The effect on these populations must be most debilitating mentally.

blkafroblkclapI agree......the effect is debilitating....this is just another why of undermining the power, strength and majesty of the black race. We as a people have been systematically destroyed form the inside out because they've taughtus our history began with slavery.

Do I follow the false image...I used to, but what I was being fed and shown didn't sit right with my spirit........and so I never really believed.

But my BIBLE tells me that his feet were burnt like bronze and he's hair was like lambs wool.

THEY can notfind me awhite man , who has skin, the colour of bronze and hair like wool, naturally (when I say that I mean no miscegenation)

Why are so many BLACK people prone to believe that.....it's makes me angry.

Fair enough and I agree whole heartedly about that.

But can someone (of Rasta faith) explain to me why you worship Haile Selassie?? This has always baffled me.

I'm not a Ras...but my mother, brothers, step-father and uncle are....my understanding of what Rastafarians believe in is
[*]Rastafarians believe that God is a spirit and that this spirit was manifested in King H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I. [*]Rastafarians believe that Jesus was a direct descendant of King David and was black. [*]Rastafarians believe that the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty is a direct representation of King David. [*]Rastafarians believe that they are the original Lost Tribes of Israel that were once scattered by Babylon until the appearance of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I. [*]Rastafarians believe that God will return them to Zion (Rastafarians refer to Ethiopia as Zion). [*]Rastafarians believe that Ethiopia is the Promised Land and that it is Heaven on Earth.

Marcus:

The Rastafarian movement - and there seem to be 2-3 varieties - is certainly interesting in that despite having been transported to the West.....

When you say transported to the West...are you talking about black people or the Rastafarian movement itself?

From what I know Rastafarism isn't an African practice, but a relatively new religion that started in Jamaica last century.


I've always grouped Rastafarism with the Nation of Islam and Voodoo.

Relatively new Diasporan blackreligions that contain some aspects of ancient African knowledged mixed in with bits and pieces of Christianity.

I think the answer to your question would probably have been apparent had you chosen not to delete some of the words that I posted:

"The Rastafarian movement - and there seem to be 2-3 varieties - is certainly interesting in that despite having been transported to the West, these particular Africans refuse to bow to any European image of The Creator and see The Creator in their own image (as indeed most other races do, and as The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey recommended that we do some 90 years or so ago) ..."

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[align=center]This Bobo Rastarian guards the entry point to the important areas of the camp, like the tabernacle where the camp members pray.[/align]

Drunk Monkey, I am not rasta..but I've rad several books about north american faiths....



Rasta saw the emergence of Haille Sellasiie....and that fact that Ethiopia was the only kingdom/state in Africa to not be colonized by european powers as some sor tof divine sign.....Abbysinia's knee never touched the ground.....when throughout the continent.....brave restistance by Africans to european domination was being squashed....

Ethiopia defeate dItaly at Adwa and later kcked them out of their country when they ocupied it......

Only country tonever be colonized in the continent...source of pride to Blacks worldwide....and seen as Godly act...when Blacks were catching hell all across the globe at the time...and Ras Tafari.."prince" tafari....aka haille sellassie was the leader...at the time...



Plus what Miss Nyomie said.....

This is truely interesting. I have always had respect for true Rastas. I dig their faith.

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Always got time forRasta

Much of my education of self came from times spent with men and women,op in the hills and on beaches in Jamaica; with men and women, somewho had never been to school, talking aboutAfrica, Slavery, Colonialism andJamaica.

They taught me things that were later confirmedand re-enforced by the works of great historians, when with maturity, reading became something I took more serious.

Rasta's presence in the UK during the 1970's, 1980's allowed much of the generation that followed, to take for granted, their African Abroad, identity.