Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Rastafarians Were Key to Black Freedom Movement
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Dec 2019
🖨️ Print Article

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.

Pan Africanism

Related Podcasts

Another ALD, But Africa Still Not Free
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Another ALD, But Africa Still Not Free
26 May 2020
More than a half century after most African states gained nominal independence, the continent is still economically and politically dependent on “e
Pan Africanists Lead “Be Clean” Campaign in Sierra Leone
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Pan Africanists Lead “Be Clean” Campaign in Sierra Leone
13 November 2018
The Black Star Action Network International, founded in Tampa, Florida, is leading a “Be Clean” community sanitation and hygiene” campaign in Freet

More Stories


  • Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical
    29 Jul 2020
    Craven black misleaders jumped at the chance to side with white corporate power against radical white allies.
  • The Free Speech Fetish is American Exceptionalism on Steroids 
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    The Free Speech Fetish is American Exceptionalism on Steroids 
    29 Jul 2020
    Harper’s “Letter” is little more than an exercise in white insecurity and opportunism among so-called liberal sections of the establishment.
  • No to the New Cold war with China
    ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
    No to the New Cold war with China
    29 Jul 2020
    The African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state and its ruling class.
  • The low Barr-Boss Tweet Rapid Response to COVID-19
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    The low Barr-Boss Tweet Rapid Response to COVID-19
    29 Jul 2020
    “If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” ― Angela Y. Davis
  • Tearing Down Black America
    Brent Cebul
    Tearing Down Black America
    29 Jul 2020
    More than half the 1.2 million Americans displaced by “urban renewal” were Black.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us