The coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie is an important event in the Rastafarian calendar. The eminent statesman was crowned King of Ethiopia on November 2,1930. This, therefore, instigated the ...

Rastafari first emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, starting out as a dynamic religious movement, but followers tend to reject the use of the term 'religion' to describe it, preferring to refer to it as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Members of the Rastafari religion and ...

Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently ...