Filmmaker Bianca Nyavingi Brynda explores the roots of the Rastafari culture from a female perspective, examining the movement's various incarnations in Jamaica, Guyana, South America and Canada.

Poet Safiya Sinclair grew up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in a devout Rastafari family. Her father, a reggae singer, ruled the home, dictating what to eat, how to dress and who she could or couldn't ...

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Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda recently ...

Sinclair grew up in a devout Rasta family in Jamaica where women were subservient. When she cut her dreadlocks at age 19, she became "a ghost" to... Poet Safiya Sinclair reflects on her Rastafari ...

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