The Ethiopian World Federation: A Pan-African Organisation among the Rastafari in Jamaica

@article{Bonacci2013TheEW,
  title={The Ethiopian World Federation: A Pan-African Organisation among the Rastafari in Jamaica},
  author={Giulia Bonacci},
  journal={Caribbean Quarterly},
  year={2013},
  volume={59},
  pages={73 - 95}
}
in introducing his book on the early history of the Rastafari movement, Robert A. Hill mentioned the "chronic historical myopia"1 induced by the i960 report on the Rastafari movement written by M. G. Smith, Roy Augier and Rex Nettleford. Indeed, despite a few major references,2 research of a historical nature on Rastafari is lagging behind anthropological and theological enquiries. The cost of such disciplinary unbalance is high as "it results in the substitution of largely apocryphal… Expand
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