Title
Jah kingdom : Rastafarians, Tanzania, and pan-Africanism in the age of decolonization / Monique Bedasse.
ISBN
9781469633619 (electronic book)
9781469633602 (electronic book)
1469633604 (electronic book)
9781469633589
1469633582
9781469633596
1469633590
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
DT448.2 .B43 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.6/996760967809048
Summary
"In Jah kingdom, Bedasse tells the story of how a group of Rastafarians led by Ras Bupe Karudi worked with scholars, activists, and politicians in the 1970s and 1980s to make pilgrimage and repatriation to Africa a possibility. Years of activism resulted in the Tanzanian government granting legal status to returning Rastafarians in 1985, and even giving the movement's adherents land in 1989. In time, friction between migrants and the struggling Tanzanian state would ultimately make repatriation impractical, but the decades of concerted activism and outreach offer a fascinating window into the political and intellectual ferment of the African diaspora during the era of decolonization"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Trodding diaspora
Without vision the people perish: the divine, regal, and noble Afrikan nation
Tanzania: site of diaspora aspiration
The wages of blackness: Rastafari and the politics of pan-Africanism after flag independence
Diasporic dreams, African nation-state realities
Sow in tears, reap in joy: Rastafarian repatriation and the African liberation struggle
Strange bedfellows: Rastafari, C.L.R. James, and the "Africa" in pan-Africanism.