Nyabinghi or Nyabingi is a prominent figure in the history of Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, where religions or 'possession cults' formed around her.. Probably via a 1930s article, the term "Nyabinghi" was introduced to Jamaica. There, it was adopted by practitioners of Rastafari, a new religious movement that used the term to describe their gatherings and later a drumming …

Rastafariánství neboli rastafari je náboženské hnutí pocházející z Jamajky, kde vzniklo ve 30. letech 20. století.Toto náboženství kombinuje především prvky židovství a křesťanství, částečně islámu a dalších (např. animistických) věr. Jeho vyznavač (rasta, rastaman nebo rastafarián) by například neměl požívat alkohol či maso; při uctívání se ...

Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that would be drawn upon later by reggae and ska artists.

Iyaric, also called Dread Talk, is a pseudo-dialect of English consciously created by members of the Rastafari movement.African languages were lost among Africans when they were taken into captivity as part of the slave trade, and adherents of Rastafari teachings believe that English is an imposed colonial language.Their remedy for this situation has been the creation of a modified …

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant.The Sea has played a central role in the history of Western civilization.Although the Mediterranean …

Jamaica (/ dʒ ə ˈ m eɪ k ə / (); Jamaican Patois: Jumieka) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the …

Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen (Amharic: ልጅ ተፈሪ መኮንን; Lij Teferī Mekōnnin). Lij is translated as "child" and serves to indicate that a youth is of noble blood. His given name, Tafari, means "one who is respected or feared."Like most Ethiopians, his personal name "Tafari" is followed by that of his father Makonnen and that of his grandfather ...

Moses (/ ˈ m oʊ z ɪ z,-z ɪ s /) is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith, the Baháʼí Faith and other Abrahamic religions.According to both the Bible and the Quran, Moses was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the authorship, or "acquisition from heaven", of the Torah (the …

"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. Following the album's release, the song was issued as a single in many countries, although not in the United Kingdom or the United States, …

Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is a religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion.There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners, who are known as Rastafari, Rastafarians, or Rastas.