Morgan Heritage’s song, ‘You don’t haffi dread to be Rasta’ intensely explains this perception. There is a common belief that if one wears dreadlocks then there is no doubt that they are ...

Obviously, they are fake, since real rasta dreads take months, if not years, to lock and twist and grow. They don't sprout overnight with a little product, pomade and manipulation. They need weeks ...

The historic-yet-sadly-dilapidated Ward Theatre in the middle of downtown Kingston, Jamaica is normally closed to the public. But it played host to a unique performance this past June, one that closed ...

Rastafarianism, which had its beginnings in Jamaica in the 1930s, is among non-Christian religious groups who appear to be gaining ground in, of all places, the British army, according to a British ...

'Don't touch I man locks," sang reggae star I-Roy. He was talking about his hair, of course, not the Chubbs on the doors of his home in the Jamaican parish of St Thomas. I-Roy wasn't prodigiously ...

Speak up, darling. I cannot hear you," a woman named Goddess prompted me on the telephone. She had no hint of a Jamaican accent, yet I was convinced that she could do for me what no one else could. I ...

Hundreds of Rastafarians came together last month in Jamaica, the birthplace of the movement, for the weeklong Rastafari Global Reasoning 2003. The official motto for the worldwide meeting, which ...