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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 8. H.I.M. Haile Selassie presenting a gold medal to Prince Emanuel of the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress, at Kings House, the seat of the Jamaican head of state. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. More
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 8. H.I.M. Haile Selassie presenting a gold medal to Prince Emanuel of the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress, at Kings House, the seat of the Jamaican head of state. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. ...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 7. The largest gathering in the country's history, welcoming H.I.M. Haile Selassie to Jamaica. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 6. A section of the massive crowds that turned out to welcome His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, who arrived in Jamaica in April 1966. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. More
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2019
... , that, as I read, all my Jamaican enthusiasm for the imaginary of Ethiopia as the ancient, storied kingdom of His Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, steadily evaporated. 1 Somehow the posture of pilgrimage now seemed wholly inappropriate, an irrelevant...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
...  |  105 6. Coronation HIM Haile Selassie with Empress Menen Asfaw, 1930. Reproduced with permission of the Depart- ment of Manuscript and Archive, Institute...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and establishing his kingdom. Inhabited by the Spirit of God, the prophets and kings of Israel assumed roles of leadership and ushered the people into God’s kingdom on earth. 41 As such, prophets and kings were “custodians of the temporal kingdom,” as opposed to Haile Selassie I, who was “ the Shiloah.” 42...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... should “return” to fulfil their hopes and aspirations of a life free from degradation and thwarted ambition. And not just Africa as a continent, but specifically, or particularly, Ethiopia itself, the seat of the Emperor Haile Selassie, the cornerstone of Rastafari. Jamaica thus existed as a complex...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as Durham and the KSACL saw them, including the view of H.I.M. Haile Selassie as the returned Messiah, the “propagation of racial hatred and prejudice” as a result of the Italo-Ethiopian War, the condemnation of Christian practices, and “the wicked Idea that there is an unholy conspiracy between church...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 66–87.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., the Conquering Lion, the holy herb, as well as the personage of the Emperor Haile Selassie are the main visual cues around which the fellow- ship of Rastafari has been built since the 1930s. These images are consciously reproduced in Rastafari artmaking which, alongside its distinct and ever-evolving...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... use of the Rasta colors of red, green, and gold and symbols such as the Lion of Judah and Haile Selassie I, and are printed with slogans such as “Jah Army” 21 httpwww.italblends.com/ (accessed 1 November 2009). 22 These fashion brands, both with Jamaican roots, although CY...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and fi nally ended up in the parish of St. Andrew working with aaxexe a small group then led by Edna Fisher. - e meeting with Fisher was propitious. She had a small prayer circle that met regularly, and in 1958 he joined it. He claimed that he believed “Haile Selassie was earth’s...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... who accepted the call from Haile Selassie to defend Ethiopia from the fascist invasion became known as “freedom fighters.” His Majesty is himself a warrior, the conquering lion, who stops bombs from exploding simply by resting his feet on them. The discourse gets its most effective and relevant...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168.
Published: 01 March 2002
... confl ation of the “divine and human agency” is also too one-sided. While it is true that for Rastafari, the man Haile Selassie is God, it is equally true that God abides in all 15. Henry, 212–13. 16. For a similar perspective, see Horace Campbell, Rasta and Resistance...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., supplanting a more simplistic view of racial progress with the view that radical social transformation will only occur when those resisting oppression are willing to step outside of recognizable structures of containment—that is, ideas 42 Emperor Haile Selassie’s visit to Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 59–73.
Published: 01 February 2006
... in the divinity of Haile Selassie I. Th ese professed Rastas are less numerous as compared to the wider Rastafari community. Th ey are very respectful of for- eign, generally Jamaican language and lifestyle Cuban popular culture seems pushed into the background, given the importance...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
... come from, where my nose comes from, where my skin comes from. In friendlier conversations when I get Ital lunch food from a cart near the library, a Rasta tells me about King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and we discuss the biblical roots of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
... into the political registry of Pan-Africanism while installing him within the spiritual pantheon of Rastafari. Through Research Associates, The Groundings joined a sanctified list of dread history and philosophy that included The Third Testament: The Selected Speeches of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
... visit of Emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica and Trinidad, for example, they were a reminder that the Caribbean’s material and symbolic relationships to and claims on the African continent have been multiple, and that for the duration of their lives these multiple meanings and pasts inhabited the same...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
...) Walcott’s interest in Rastafarians dates back at least to 1972 when he wrote O Babylon!, a play set in 1966, the year of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie’s historic visit to Jamaica. It recounts the story of a Rasta community—whose spiritual leader is appropriately called “Suf- ferer”—facing “Babylon...