+- Cricket Windies (https://cricketwindies.com)
+-- Forum: What’s on Your Mind? (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-3.html)
+--- Forum: The Water Cooler! (https://cricketwindies.com/forum-4.html)
+--- Thread: Jamaica and Ethiopia (/thread-36188.html)
Jamaica and Ethiopia - ketchim - 07-29-2017
Ethiopia's foreign ministry has said it will issue identification cards to Rastafarians !
The Rastafarian community who emigrated to Ethiopia has long complained
of living in limbo in their so-called promised land.
Re: Rastafarians and Ethiopia - ketchim - 07-29-2017
Rastafarians will now be eligible to receive ID cards that will allow them
to reside and have most legal rights in the country.
However, they are still not considered citizens.
Under the revised guidelines, the cards will also be available to foreigners
who have contributed to the country's development and to Israelis
of Ethiopian descent.
Re: Jamaica and Ethiopia - ketchim - 07-29-2017
Rastafarians revere Ethiopia's former-Emperor Haile Selassie as a god.
This started after the black consciousness leader Marcus Garvey's prophecy:
"Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned,
for the day of deliverance is at hand".
Re: Jamaica and Ethiopia - ketchim - 07-29-2017
In 1963, a dozen Jamaica Rastafarians took up the offer
and those numbers swelled to around 800 today
![[Image: faa3e390-8017-414a-aea0-af4be4b19fb7.jpg]](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2017/7/28/faa3e390-8017-414a-aea0-af4be4b19fb7.jpg)
Re: Jamaica and Ethiopia - ketchim - 07-29-2017
Why Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados et al never had Rastasfarian ?
A different Tribe was dropped off in Jamaica ??
from slave ship days ..... :-\
Re: Jamaica and Ethiopia - ketchim - 07-29-2017
Quote:Rastafarians revere Ethiopia's former-Emperor Haile Selassie as a god.ramesh, how come Garvey never caught on in GT !
This started after the black consciousness leader Marcus Garvey's prophecy:
Why no one Hail Selassise :-\