Duggie Mack, the Jamaican Delegation to Ethiopia, and the Rastafarian Movement

Radical Religions #2 of 4. Duggie Mack was one of three young Jamaicans who traveled with a delegation to Ethiopia in 1961 searching for a way to move all of his people “back to the Promised Land.” The Rastafari, like many Pan-African movements before them, preached a ‘repatriation’ dream, and Mack hoped to make that dream come true. Would he succeed? Listen in to find out.

Select Bibliography

Peter Clarke, Black Paradise: The Rastafarian Movement (San Bernadino, CA: Tte Borgo Press, 1994)

Douglas Mack, From Babylon to Rastafari: Origin and History of the Rastafarian Movement (Chicago: Frontline Distribution International Inc, 1999).

Velma Pollard, Dread Talk: The Language of the Rastafari, (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014).

Michael A. Gomez, Diasporic Africa: A Reader (New York: NYU Press, 2006).

Get the transcript and full bibliography at digpodcast.org

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