Rastas: Not ‘irie’

by Donna Sealy

RESIGN QUIETLY or there will be a revolution from the Rastafari brethren – the “real” Africans who know what the struggle is about.

This call, to newly-appointed director of the Commission for Pan African Affairs, Dr Ikael Tafari, came yesterday from Ras Iathi Mau Mau, a Kenyan Rastafarian living here.

Mau Mau stressed Pan Africanism belonged to African people and said it was “out of order” for Tafari to hold the post. “It is an African business to be conducted by African people and to correspond with the African people at home and in the diaspora,” he said.

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