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New magazine : Irie Up

Check out the first issue of this new magazine... Irie Up and don’t be no drag !

While the international The Beat magazine unfortunately closed down (read the news) one month ago, we are glad to learn in the same time, that a new magazine, out of Europe, is born. It’s called Irie Up and is going out every two months.

« It’s devoted to all kinds of roots reggae and dub, instrumental to digital to vocal... from Brazil to China and the magazine is produced by people involved in soundsystems around the world », told us the chief editor, Ronan Lynch. The...

Vivian Jackson (1946-2010)

Vivian Jackson, also known as Yabby You the 'Jesus Dread', died yesterday in Jamaica. I was introduced to the spiritual and uplifting songs through his work with King Tubby. Jackson was a favorite of King Tubby, frequently benefitting from Tubby's dub production. Like most of the great reggae artists, not much is known about his life before he began recording. He was reportedly abandoned by his parents at an early age and found refuge in the Rastafari camps outside Kingston. During his childhood, Jackson suffered from malnutrition which led to a permanent disability that severely restricted...

Nyanbinghi

The Nyahbinghi Man

The Nyahbinghi Man must abide by the laws of His Imperial Majesty.

It is also the sole duty of every Nyahbinghi Man to uphold the livity of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Thus, every Nyahbinghi Man must see to it that love and harmony be maintained at every Nyahbinghi gathering including House Reasoning.

During I-semble, the Nyahbinghi man is permitted to administrate around the altar or to prophecy before the congregation on His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, black history and other aspects of Rastafari Ivine livety....

Education Time

Rasta Elder comes forward to reason about the current state of the Rastafarian Movement. Overstanding the reality of Haile Selassie still living today as well as the urgency of the current world situation.

Education Time Rastafari Liveth

Many people throughout the world have a hard time understanding what it means to be a Rasta. For some their troubles in understanding Rasta’s come because they look as Rastafari as only a religion. When one does this they run into many problems. This is because Rastafari is much more than a religion. It is a way of life, a social movement, as well as a mind set. Another reason why western people have a hard time understanding Rastafari is because the movement lacks the structure that the western world is use to.
A lot of people’s understanding of Rasta’s only goes as far as to...

ShaShamane . The town that rastafarians build

No where is this more the case than among a community of Rastafarians, who have settled in the small southern Ethiopian town of Shashamene. The Rastafarians, who are mainly from Jamaica, started migrating to Ethiopia 38 years ago, when Haile Selassie, whom they consider to be God incarnate, gave them 500 hectares of land on which to settle. Since the first 12 Jamaican settlers in 1963, the community has grown to over 200 families. Room for more Papa Rocky, a 74 year old Rastafarian elder from Jamaica believes western countries should help repatriate all those who might wish to return to...

The Nazarite Vow

The Nazirite Vow


The Nazirite (spelt 'Nazarite' in the King James Version) Vow is described in Numbers 6:1-21. A man or woman who took the Nazirite Vow dedicated him or herself completely to God for a stated period. Sometimes this was for life, or sometimes a child would be so devoted from birth. The Nazirite Vow was thus a form of consecration to the service of God.

Nazirites must refrain from strong drink, including wine and any product of the vine, for cultivation of the vine was associated with the settled way of life, rather than with the nomadic...

Words Of Wisdom

"Bobo Dreads"

Bobo Dreads are one of the larger 'houses' of Rastafari, and are also known as the 'Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress', or as the 'Bobo Shanti'.

Their founder, leader, President and High Priest is Prince Emmanuel Charles Edwards, usually known simply as Prince Emmanuel, or affectionately as Dada.

The name 'Emmanuel' or 'Immanuel' is derived from the Hebrew scriptures and means literally 'God (El) is with us'. It was also a name or title given to Jesus Christ, with whom Prince Emmanuel of the Bobo Dreads is frequently...

12 tribes of Israel

The Twelve Tribes of Israel:
An Organizational Movement

The Rastafarian Movement has been one of the most important movements of our time. It has proved to us that it is possible to make lemonade out of the lemons that are dealt to us, and that violence is not the only way to deal with troubles or get what you feel you deserve. It has also provided a system of faith and following for over 700,000 loyal people. A Social, political and religious explosion with as few negative connotations as possible, Rasta is just about as good as it gets.

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