We visit a group of Rastafarians from Jamaica and the United States who worship the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. They live in a small rural community about 200 miles south of the capitol of ...

Addis Ababa — Rasta's Paradise, a documentary film by Parine Jaddo, premiered at City Hall on Saturday, May 5, 2007. The film aims to connect the historical and spiritual Rastafari movement to its ...

SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia — The promised land of the world’s Rastafarians can be found along a narrow highway in Ethiopia’s ancient Rift Valley, a landscape of scattered trees with trunks the size of ...

Rastafarians from around the world have been settling in Ethiopia for the last 50 years, after being given land by Emperor Haile Selassie. Today, life in "the promised land" is far from the paradise ...

2000-12-04 04:00:00 PDT Shashemene, Ethiopia-- The voluminous plumes of marijuana smoke that stream from Isaiah Kelly's mouth obscure the creases and wrinkles of a face aged prematurely by hardship.

SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia -- The promised land of the world's Rastafarians can be found along a narrow highway in Ethiopia's ancient Rift Valley, a landscape of scattered trees with trunks the size of ...

In 2018, Thomas Walker, a Rastafarian in an Illinois state prison, was forced to cut his dreadlocks for what officials ...

Rastafarians have been moving to Ethiopia for decades as a part spiritual journey, part political mission to repatriate Africa with the sons and daughters of African slaves. Rastas consider Ethiopia ...

Ethiopia's foreign ministry said Friday it will issue identification cards to Rastafarians, granting rights to a community that has long complained of living in limbo in their "promised land".

Rastafarians around the world see Ethiopia as their spiritual home. Many of them believe the country’s last king, Haile Selassie, was a descendent of King Solomon and the messiah. Many of the men ...

Ethiopia's foreign ministry said Friday it will issue identification cards to Rastafarians, granting rights to a community that has long complained of living in limbo in their "promised land".