7 - Return of the 6th Region: Rastafari Settlement in the Motherland Contributing to the African Renaissance
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- Afari, Y., Shawn, B., Ras tre, Ras Ishach and Congo Isef, 2007, Overstanding Rastafari "Jamaica’s Gift to the World", Senya-Cum, Jamaica.
- Atlanta Ras Tafari Delegation to Ghana Report (2007) by Binghi Shawn, Ras Tre, Ras Ishach and Congo Isef, http://rastaites.com/news/hearticals/Ghana/report01.pdf (accessed September 2011).
- Augier, R. and Salter, V., eds., 2010, ‘Rastafari – The Reports’, in Caribbean Quarterly, (CQ)
- Cultural Studies Initiative, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
- Biko, S., 1971, ‘Address to Black Theology Seminar in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa http://www.sahistory.org.za/20th-century-south-africa/black-consciousness-movement (accessed September 2011).
- Chevannes, B., 1998, ‘Rastafari and the Exorcism of Racism and Classism’, in N. S. Murrell, W.D. Spencer & A. A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: the Rastafari Reader, Temple University Press, USA (pp. 62).
- Chevannes, B., 2001, (Foreword of Tafari, I.) Rastafari in Transition, Research Associates School Times Publications/Frontline Dis- tribution Int’l Inc. USA and Miguel Lorne Publishers, Jamaica.
- Christian, I., 2005, Empress of Zion – She Hands Us Her Rulebook Right Now, Empress of Zion Inc, Atlanta.
- Edmonds, E.B., 1998, ‘Dread "I" In-A-Babylon’, in N. S. Murrell, W. D. Spencer & A. A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, Temple University Press, USA, pp. 24-33.
- Ellen, R. F. and Harris, H., 1996, ‘Concepts of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Scientific and Development Studies Literature: A Critical Assessment’, in Ave- nir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales (APFT).
- Emeagwali, G., 2003, ‘African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIK): Implications for the Curriculum’, in Toyin, F., ed., Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen, New Jersey: Africa World Press, http://www.africahistory.net/AIK.htm (accessed August 2011).
- Ethiopia Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council, 2009, Position Paper, ‘The Rasta- fari Nation Fundamental Rights for Repatriation and Reparations for Rastafari and Africans in the Diaspora Who So Desire to Return to the Continent of Africa’, Jamaica.
- Flavier, J.M. et al., 1995, "The Regional Program for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge in Asia", pp. 479-487 in War- ren, D.M., L.J. Slikkerveer and D. Brokensha (eds) The cultural dimension of development: Indigenous knowledge systems. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/basic.htm (accessed August 2011).
- Gayle, C. and Ras, Iah C., 1995, ‘Repatriation-Upful Livity is a Must’, in JAHUG Vol.4 Published by C. Gayle & Y. Gayle for Repatriation Productions, London.
- Haile Selassie I (1931-1970), ‘Selected Spee- ches of Haile Selassie I’, posted online by The Church of Haile Selassie I Inc. Ba Beta Kristiyan Haile Selassi, http://www.himchurch.org/ Recommended_Reading/Selected_Speeches/ Haile_Selassie_I-Selected_Speeches-Chapter_III 19640721.html (accessed September 2011).
- Homiak, J., 2011, ‘’Reverberations 50 Years On: Negotiating the African Presence in Jamaica, The Inaugural Rastafari Confe- rence 2010’, in Reggae 17 Festival Guide 2011, RBA Publishing Inc., Reno, Nevada.
- Homiak, J., 2011, ‘2010 Rastafari Conference in Jamaica’, in Rhetoric of Reggae, Wednesday, June 22, 2011.http://rhetoricofreggaer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated (accessed September 2011).
- Homiak, J. and Lutanie, B., 2011, ‘Each-One- Teach-One" La Premiére Conférence In- ternationale Sur Le Mouvement Rastafari á L’Université des West Indies in Reggae Édito #19, August/ September 2011, De- troit Media, Paris.
- Jamaica Gleaner News Online Archives (August 2, 2011) http://jamaica-gleaner.com/Kwame NkrumahCentenaryColloquium–Con- temporary Relevance of Kwame Nkrumah’s Contribution to Pan-Africanism and Internationalism’, 22–25 May, 2010 Accra, Ghana – Final Report, Ghana Youth Move- ment Facebook page (accessed August 2011)
- Lewis, R., 1998, ‘Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians’, in N. S. Murrell, W. D. Spen- cer & A. A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader. Temple University Press, USA, pp. 151.
- Lwanga, D., 2007, ‘Ghana Upholds the Spirit of Pan-African Citizenship’, in Pambazuka News, 2007-03-07, Issue 294, Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/ comment/40114 (accessed September 2011).
- Mack, D. R. A., 1999, From Babylon to Rastafari, Research Associates School Times Publications, Frontline Distribution Int’l Inc., Chicago, Jamaica, London, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
- Marley, (Bob) R. N. and Perry, L. (Scratch), 1983, ‘Blackman Redemption’, in Confron- tation album produced by Rita Marley, (accessed September 2011) http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bob _marley/ blackman_redemption.html
- Marley, (Bob) R. N., 1980, ‘Redemption Song’, in Uprising album produced by Bob Marley and the Wailers, audio mixed by Chris Blackwell and Errol Brown and originally released by Island Records (9596).http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1965126/a/Uprising.htm (accessed September 2011).
- Mbeki, T., 1998, The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World, presentation at United Nations University, 9 April 1998, http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/mbeki.html (accessed September 2011).
- Merritt, A. W., 2006, ‘Ethiopianism, Africanity and Repatriation: An Africentric Social History of Shashemene Repatriation Community, Ethiopia: 1995-2004’, PhD dissertation, Union Institute and Univer- sity, Cincinatti, Ohio/ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbour, Mi-chigan.
- McFarlane, A.A., 1998, ‘The Epistemological Significance of "I-an-I" as a Response to Quashie and Anancyism in Jamaican Cul- ture’, in N. S. Murrell, W. D. Spencer & A.A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: the Rastafari Reader, Temple University Press, USA, (pp. 107).
- Nabudere, Dani W., 2010, ‘African Indigenous Knowledge’ in International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, Centre for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa-UNISA-Volume 1 Number 1, pp. 7-32.
- Outcomes Document on the African Diaspora Global Conference: Caribbean Regional Con-sultation (27-28 August 2007), Bridgetown Barbados.
- http://www.caricom.org/jsp/community_organs/ african_diaspora_caribbean_consultation.jsp (accessed August 2011).
- Planno, M., 1962, ‘Letter to the Editor’, Daily Gleaner, Jamaica. http://download-plaza.dutchrasta.n l/SistrenItes/ SistrenItes_Vol_3_Issue_04.pdf (accessed August 2011).
- Report on the Fact Finding Mission to Ethiopia/ Harar Trod Report, 2010, Harar/Ethiopia Trod, October 24 – November 22, 2009, collaboratively written by Sister Ijahnya Christian et al, compiled by Debra Kiliru- Liontree & Christopher Keiser-Liontree, Co-Directors, Motherland International Relations, USA.
- Shipale, Paul Tuhafeni, ‘Reclaiming the values and institutions of African heritage’ in PRÉvue [discourse’s –analysis] TRI-vium, Feature Article of Friday, 3 December 2010, of the New Era and Namibia Today, commentary on a speech entitled ‘Commitment to the Civil Society: The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Religious, Regional and Ethnic Obstacles to National Integration’, Dakar, Senegal, July 27-30, 2009.
- South Africa, African Union, Caribbean Diaspora Conference 16 -18 March 2005 Kingston, Jamaica,
- http://www.dfa.gov.za/events/diaspora/docs/background.htm (accessed August 2011).
- Tafari, I., 2001, Rastafari in Transition, Research Associates School Times Publications/Frontline Distribution Int’l Inc. and Miguel Lorne Publishers, Chicago, Jamaica, Lon- don, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean.
- Toney, J., ‘Africans on Caribbean Plantations’, in IPPOA Magazine - Indigenous People of Africa and America, Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, http : //www.ipoaa.com/ africans_on_caribbean_plantations.htm (accessed September 2011).
- WCAR Durban POA, 2001, http://www.un.org/ WCAR/durban.pdf, (accessed September 2011). Warren, D. M., 1991, Using Indigenous Knowledge in Agricultural Development, World Bank
- Discussion Paper No. 127. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik /basic.htm, (accessed August 2011).
- White, C. M., 2007, Living in Zion: Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa in Journal of Black Studies, May Vol. 37 No. 5, (pp 677-709), http://www.cmich.edu/chsbs/x19205.xml, (abstract accessed August 2011)
- Published online before print March 8, 2007, doi: 10.1177/0021934705282379 Zips, W.,2005, ‘Global Fire: Repatriation and Reparations from a Rastafari (Re)Migrant’s Perspective’, in von Benda-Beckman, F. et al., eds., Mobile People, Mobile Law , UK, USA: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 69-83.
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Afari, Y., Shawn, B., Ras tre, Ras Ishach and Congo Isef, 2007, Overstanding Rastafari "Jamaica’s Gift to the World", Senya-Cum, Jamaica.
Atlanta Ras Tafari Delegation to Ghana Report (2007) by Binghi Shawn, Ras Tre, Ras Ishach and Congo Isef, http://rastaites.com/news/hearticals/Ghana/report01.pdf (accessed September 2011).
Augier, R. and Salter, V., eds., 2010, ‘Rastafari – The Reports’, in Caribbean Quarterly, (CQ)
Cultural Studies Initiative, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
Biko, S., 1971, ‘Address to Black Theology Seminar in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa http://www.sahistory.org.za/20th-century-south-africa/black-consciousness-movement (accessed September 2011).
Chevannes, B., 1998, ‘Rastafari and the Exorcism of Racism and Classism’, in N. S. Murrell, W.D. Spencer & A. A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: the Rastafari Reader, Temple University Press, USA (pp. 62).
Chevannes, B., 2001, (Foreword of Tafari, I.) Rastafari in Transition, Research Associates School Times Publications/Frontline Dis- tribution Int’l Inc. USA and Miguel Lorne Publishers, Jamaica.
Christian, I., 2005, Empress of Zion – She Hands Us Her Rulebook Right Now, Empress of Zion Inc, Atlanta.
Edmonds, E.B., 1998, ‘Dread "I" In-A-Babylon’, in N. S. Murrell, W. D. Spencer & A. A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, Temple University Press, USA, pp. 24-33.
Ellen, R. F. and Harris, H., 1996, ‘Concepts of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Scientific and Development Studies Literature: A Critical Assessment’, in Ave- nir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales (APFT).
Emeagwali, G., 2003, ‘African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIK): Implications for the Curriculum’, in Toyin, F., ed., Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen, New Jersey: Africa World Press, http://www.africahistory.net/AIK.htm (accessed August 2011).
Ethiopia Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council, 2009, Position Paper, ‘The Rasta- fari Nation Fundamental Rights for Repatriation and Reparations for Rastafari and Africans in the Diaspora Who So Desire to Return to the Continent of Africa’, Jamaica.
Flavier, J.M. et al., 1995, "The Regional Program for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge in Asia", pp. 479-487 in War- ren, D.M., L.J. Slikkerveer and D. Brokensha (eds) The cultural dimension of development: Indigenous knowledge systems. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/basic.htm (accessed August 2011).
Gayle, C. and Ras, Iah C., 1995, ‘Repatriation-Upful Livity is a Must’, in JAHUG Vol.4 Published by C. Gayle & Y. Gayle for Repatriation Productions, London.
Haile Selassie I (1931-1970), ‘Selected Spee- ches of Haile Selassie I’, posted online by The Church of Haile Selassie I Inc. Ba Beta Kristiyan Haile Selassi, http://www.himchurch.org/ Recommended_Reading/Selected_Speeches/ Haile_Selassie_I-Selected_Speeches-Chapter_III 19640721.html (accessed September 2011).
Homiak, J., 2011, ‘’Reverberations 50 Years On: Negotiating the African Presence in Jamaica, The Inaugural Rastafari Confe- rence 2010’, in Reggae 17 Festival Guide 2011, RBA Publishing Inc., Reno, Nevada.
Homiak, J., 2011, ‘2010 Rastafari Conference in Jamaica’, in Rhetoric of Reggae, Wednesday, June 22, 2011.http://rhetoricofreggaer.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated (accessed September 2011).
Homiak, J. and Lutanie, B., 2011, ‘Each-One- Teach-One" La Premiére Conférence In- ternationale Sur Le Mouvement Rastafari á L’Université des West Indies in Reggae Édito #19, August/ September 2011, De- troit Media, Paris.
Jamaica Gleaner News Online Archives (August 2, 2011) http://jamaica-gleaner.com/Kwame NkrumahCentenaryColloquium–Con- temporary Relevance of Kwame Nkrumah’s Contribution to Pan-Africanism and Internationalism’, 22–25 May, 2010 Accra, Ghana – Final Report, Ghana Youth Move- ment Facebook page (accessed August 2011)
Lewis, R., 1998, ‘Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians’, in N. S. Murrell, W. D. Spen- cer & A. A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader. Temple University Press, USA, pp. 151.
Lwanga, D., 2007, ‘Ghana Upholds the Spirit of Pan-African Citizenship’, in Pambazuka News, 2007-03-07, Issue 294, Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/ comment/40114 (accessed September 2011).
Mack, D. R. A., 1999, From Babylon to Rastafari, Research Associates School Times Publications, Frontline Distribution Int’l Inc., Chicago, Jamaica, London, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Marley, (Bob) R. N. and Perry, L. (Scratch), 1983, ‘Blackman Redemption’, in Confron- tation album produced by Rita Marley, (accessed September 2011) http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/bob _marley/ blackman_redemption.html
Marley, (Bob) R. N., 1980, ‘Redemption Song’, in Uprising album produced by Bob Marley and the Wailers, audio mixed by Chris Blackwell and Errol Brown and originally released by Island Records (9596).http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1965126/a/Uprising.htm (accessed September 2011).
Mbeki, T., 1998, The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World, presentation at United Nations University, 9 April 1998, http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/mbeki.html (accessed September 2011).
Merritt, A. W., 2006, ‘Ethiopianism, Africanity and Repatriation: An Africentric Social History of Shashemene Repatriation Community, Ethiopia: 1995-2004’, PhD dissertation, Union Institute and Univer- sity, Cincinatti, Ohio/ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbour, Mi-chigan.
McFarlane, A.A., 1998, ‘The Epistemological Significance of "I-an-I" as a Response to Quashie and Anancyism in Jamaican Cul- ture’, in N. S. Murrell, W. D. Spencer & A.A. McFarlane, eds., Chanting Down Babylon: the Rastafari Reader, Temple University Press, USA, (pp. 107).
Nabudere, Dani W., 2010, ‘African Indigenous Knowledge’ in International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, Centre for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa-UNISA-Volume 1 Number 1, pp. 7-32.
Outcomes Document on the African Diaspora Global Conference: Caribbean Regional Con-sultation (27-28 August 2007), Bridgetown Barbados.
http://www.caricom.org/jsp/community_organs/ african_diaspora_caribbean_consultation.jsp (accessed August 2011).
Planno, M., 1962, ‘Letter to the Editor’, Daily Gleaner, Jamaica. http://download-plaza.dutchrasta.n l/SistrenItes/ SistrenItes_Vol_3_Issue_04.pdf (accessed August 2011).
Report on the Fact Finding Mission to Ethiopia/ Harar Trod Report, 2010, Harar/Ethiopia Trod, October 24 – November 22, 2009, collaboratively written by Sister Ijahnya Christian et al, compiled by Debra Kiliru- Liontree & Christopher Keiser-Liontree, Co-Directors, Motherland International Relations, USA.
Shipale, Paul Tuhafeni, ‘Reclaiming the values and institutions of African heritage’ in PRÉvue [discourse’s –analysis] TRI-vium, Feature Article of Friday, 3 December 2010, of the New Era and Namibia Today, commentary on a speech entitled ‘Commitment to the Civil Society: The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Religious, Regional and Ethnic Obstacles to National Integration’, Dakar, Senegal, July 27-30, 2009.
South Africa, African Union, Caribbean Diaspora Conference 16 -18 March 2005 Kingston, Jamaica,
http://www.dfa.gov.za/events/diaspora/docs/background.htm (accessed August 2011).
Tafari, I., 2001, Rastafari in Transition, Research Associates School Times Publications/Frontline Distribution Int’l Inc. and Miguel Lorne Publishers, Chicago, Jamaica, Lon- don, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean.
Toney, J., ‘Africans on Caribbean Plantations’, in IPPOA Magazine - Indigenous People of Africa and America, Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, http : //www.ipoaa.com/ africans_on_caribbean_plantations.htm (accessed September 2011).
WCAR Durban POA, 2001, http://www.un.org/ WCAR/durban.pdf, (accessed September 2011). Warren, D. M., 1991, Using Indigenous Knowledge in Agricultural Development, World Bank
Discussion Paper No. 127. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik /basic.htm, (accessed August 2011).
White, C. M., 2007, Living in Zion: Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa in Journal of Black Studies, May Vol. 37 No. 5, (pp 677-709), http://www.cmich.edu/chsbs/x19205.xml, (abstract accessed August 2011)
Published online before print March 8, 2007, doi: 10.1177/0021934705282379 Zips, W.,2005, ‘Global Fire: Repatriation and Reparations from a Rastafari (Re)Migrant’s Perspective’, in von Benda-Beckman, F. et al., eds., Mobile People, Mobile Law , UK, USA: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., pp. 69-83.