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Author Bedasse, Monique, author.

Title Jah kingdom : Rastafarians, Tanzania, and pan-Africanism in the age of decolonization / Monique Bedasse
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 14, 2017)
Subject Rastafarians -- Tanzania
Repatriation -- Tanzania -- 20th century
Black people -- Migrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Rastafarians
Repatriation
SUBJECT Tanzania -- History -- 1964- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010014847
Subject Tanzania
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017004066
ISBN 9781469633602
1469633604
9781469633619
1469633612