Historical Origin of Rastafarian, Marcus Garvey and Pan-African Movement

Abstract

  The Subject of this article is a Historical origin of Rastafarian in Shashemene town. Despite the longer of enthusiastic welcome to Rastafarians in to Shashemene; empirical work on the history of their settlement in Shashemene has been largely scant. The article focuses on the history of Rastafarian settlement in shashemene from land grant by Emperor Haile SelassieI to the end of the Dergue regime. The historical back ground of Rastafarian settlement in Sheshemene town is also treated in the article. Though the Rastafarian communities had settled in Shashemene before several decades ago the aftermath of Rastafarians ‘episode of follow to shashemene got little attention. In order to narrow such gap, the article aimed at investigating and documenting the history of Rastafarians immigrants in sheshemene. Also the article explores the historical connection between Rastafarians and Emperor Haile SelassieI. Moreover, in this article the efforts have been made to investigate the reason behind Repatriation to home land and the land grant in sheshemene. Finally it attempts to analyses the contribution of Rastafarians in economic development of Sheshemene and evaluates the socio-cultural relationship between Rastafarians immigrants and the local people. The socio-political views and teachings of Jamaican publicist, organizer and black Nationalist Marcus Garvey played and his pan- Africanist movement is also deep-rooted.