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Rastafarians Were Key to Black Freedom Movement
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Dec 2019
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The Jamaica-birthed Rastafarian movement played a key role in the emergence of a global movement for African liberation, said Daive Dunkley, professor of Black Studies at the University of Missouri and author of a number of books on the subject. “This spirituality component of Rastafari was part of a package that was geared towards decolonizing Black space in the diaspora,” including the continent of Africa. Dunkley said there are now more Rastafari in South Africa than in Jamaica.

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