Exodus!: Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia - Softcover

Bonacci, Giulia

 
9789766405038: Exodus!: Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9766405034 ISBN 13: 9789766405038
Verlag: UNIV OF THE WEST INDIES PR, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

In 1977, Bob Marley composed Exodus, a reggae masterpiece that evokes the return of Rastafari to Africa. Over the past fifty years, Rastafari have made the journey to Ethiopia, settling in the country as “repatriates”. This little-known history is told in Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia. Giulia Bonacci recounts, with sharpness and rigour, this amazing journey of Rastafari who left the Caribbean, the United States and the United Kingdom. Exiting from the Babylon of the West and entering the Zion that is Ethiopia, the exodus has a pan-African dimension that is significant to the present day. Despite facing complex challenges in their relations with the Ethiopian state and its people, mystical and determined Rastafari keep arriving to Shashemene, their Promised Land.

Revealing personal trajectories, Giulia Bonacci shows that Rastafari were not the first black settlers in Ethiopia. She tracks the history of return over the decades, demonstrating that the utopian idea of return is also a reality. Exodus! is based on in-depth archival and print research, as well as on a wide range of oral histories collected in Ethiopia, Jamaica, Ghana and the United States. Originally published in French in 2010 by Editions L’Harmattan, this translation is the first time Bonacci’s valuable work has been made widely available to an English-speaking audience.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

GIULIA BONACCI is a researcher at the Institute of Research for Development, France.

ANTOINETTE TIDJANI ALOU is Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger.

ELIKIA M’BOKOLO is Research Director, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, and Professor of History at the Université de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Verlag
UNIV OF THE WEST INDIES PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9766405034
ISBN 13 
9789766405038
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Anzahl der Seiten
520
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