Rastafari, repatriation and armed conflict: an analysis of the African Reform Church activism in the terms of the afrocreole culture

• Autor(a) principal: Mogni, Ariel
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Esboços (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/83144
• topic: Rastafari; Afrocreole; Repatriation; Rastafari; Afrocreole; Repatriación

In this article we analize the development of the Rastafarian African Reform Church, led by the minister Claudius Henry, in Jamaica between 1959 and 1960, and how their actions pretended to force the repatriation to Ethiopia and the afrodescendants liberation from colonial rule in the terms of the back-to-Africa ideals. Through the study of their proclaims, the governmental discussions, the mass-media debates and the trial of the members of the organization, we try to incorporate the project of the African Reform Church, unfinished because of the state repression, in the senses conformed on the long-time of the afrocreole culture, the garveyist thoughts of self-management and the association with an organization beyond the national borders. So, the approach of Henry and his group, became a germ of the political mechanism that were developed within the Caribbean and North American Black Power at the end of the 1960s.