Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rastafarians drum and sing during a special prayer and worship meeting at Menengai forest in Kenya. James Wakibia/SOPA ...

Why did Haile Selassie become a central figure in Rastafarian belief? This video explores his 1930 coronation, biblical ...

Rastafarian beliefs regarding Haile Selassie I and the eventual repatriation of blacks to Africa. Haile Selassie never regarded himself as God, nor did he adhere to Rastafari. Rastafarians regard ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — After the sun set over the Nethermead, a sprawling lawn in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, on Saturday (July 22), elders of the Nyabinghi Rastafari Order approached a tabernacle, a ...

You ever have those mornings when you wake up to people thinking you're Jesus? Tefari Makonnen Woldemikael was born to the royal line of Ethiopia in 1892, who traditionally claim descent from King ...

Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen. 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 ...

CONSIDERED a champion in Africa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I received a rapturous welcome from the Rastafarian community when he arrived at Palisadoes Airport in Jamaica on April 21, 1966, 55 ...

On November 2nd, 1930 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, Ras Tafari was crowned as His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the first and his wife Empress Menen. History will record that ...