Jah Kingdom Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization / Monique Bedasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedasse, Monique, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Migrations.

Black people.

Rastafarians--Tanzania.

Rastafarians.

Tanzania--History--1964-.

Tanzania.

Repatriation--Tanzania--20th century.

Repatriation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In Jah kingdom, Bedasse tells the story of how a group of Rastafarians led by Ras Bupe Karudi worked with scholars, activists, and politicians in the 1970s and 1980s to make pilgrimage and repatriation to Africa a possibility. Years of activism resulted in the Tanzanian government granting legal status to returning Rastafarians in 1985, and even giving the movement's adherents land in 1989. In time, friction between migrants and the struggling Tanzanian state would ultimately make repatriation impractical, but the decades of concerted activism and outreach offer a fascinating window into the political and intellectual ferment of the African diaspora during the era of decolonization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Trodding diaspora

Without vision the people perish: the divine, regal, and noble Afrikan nation

Tanzania: site of diaspora aspiration

The wages of blackness: Rastafari and the politics of pan-Africanism after flag independence

Diasporic dreams, African nation-state realities

Sow in tears, reap in joy: Rastafarian repatriation and the African liberation struggle

Strange bedfellows: Rastafari, C.L.R. James, and the "Africa" in pan-Africanism.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908493-0-4

979-88-908493-1-1

1-4696-3360-4

1-4696-3361-2

OCLC:

1000520466