  
Dread History: 
 
The African Diaspora,  
Ethiopianism, and Rastafari 
 
Suggested Readings & Discography 
 
 
Suggested Readings 
In recent years, a growing number of Rastafari have begun to write about
their history, movement, and culture from their own perspective.  
Alemu I, Atiba Jahson 
1996 The Rastafari Ible (Bible). Frontline Distribution International,
Inc. 
  
Chevannes, Barry 
1994 Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. New York: Syracuse University
Press. 
  
Homiak, John 
1994 From Yard to Nation: Rastafari and the Politics of Eldership at
Home and Abroad. In Manfred Kremser, ed. 
Ay Bobo: Afro-Caribbean Religions (Part III). Vienna: Institute
fur Volkerkunde der Universitat Wien. 
  
Jah Bones 
1987 One Love: Rastafari History, Doctrine, and Livity. Voice of
Rasta Publishing House/Ruz Distribution, Ltd. Tottenham: London. 
  
Morrison, Silburn Mosiah 
1992 Rastafari: The Conscious Embrace. Brooklyn. Itality Publishing
House/Headstart Books. 
  
Rodney, Walter 
1969 The Groundings with My Brothers. London: Bogle-L'Overture Publications. 
  
Scott, William 
1994 The Sons of Sheba's Race: African-Americans ant the Italo-Ethiopian
War, 1935-1941. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 
  
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1978 "And Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Its Hands": The Origins
of Ethiopianism in Afro-American Thought, 1767-1896. Umoja 11(1):1-14. 
  
Shepperson, G. 
1968 Ethiopianism: Past and Present. In C.G. Baeta, ed., Christianity in
Tropical Africa. 
  
Yawney, Carole 
1994 Rastafari Sounds of Cultural Resistance: Amharic Language Training
in Trench Town, Jamaica. In Manfred Kremser, ed., Ay Bobo: Afro-Caribbean
Religions (Part III). Vienna: Institute fur Volkerkunde der Universitat
Wien. 
  
Discography 
  
Rastafari Elders, 1991 Ras Records. Washington, D.C. 
  
Modern Antique, 1991 Ras Pidow, Ras Records. Washington, D.C. 
  
Ark of the Covenant: Nyabinghi, 1994. Ras Ivi and the Family of Rastafari.
 
  
Kulungu: Traditional Rastafari Kumina Songs, Prayers, and Reasonings.
1996.  
Produced by Ras E.S.P. McPherson.  
  
Satta masagana 1969. The Abbysinians. Ras Records 
  
The History, 1997. Ras Sam Brown. Ras Records. 
  
Confrontation. Bob Marley 
  
Equal Rights. Peter Tosh 
  
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