After a lifetime of campaigning for the repatriation of Rastafarians to Ethiopia, their spiritual homeland, Jah Lloyd, the outspoken Rastafarian activist, died last week in that east African country, Sunday Observer sources said. Jah Lloyd, whose real name is Lloyd Young, was in his 60s...
News Source: Jamaica Observer
Jah Lloyd, an elder of the local Rastafari Theocracy government, reportedly left Jamaica mid last year for Ethiopia to attend a "reasoning" (conference) on repatriation, in his capacity as chairman of Jamaica's Rastafari Steering Committee of the Ethiopian Peace Foundation (EPF).
But while still in Ethiopia towards the end of last year, he tendered his resignation as chairman of the EPF, which was established as an umbrella organisation for all Rastafari mansion (organisations) to promote the efforts of the repatriation movement by HIH Zere Yacob Asfa Wossen, crown prince and heir apparent to the throne of his late grandfather Haile Selassie I.
Repatriation to the motherland is a fundamental aspect of the Rastafari worldview since the coronation of Haile Selassie I in 1930, which marked the birth of the 74-year-old movement.
One of the last Jamaicans to have contact with Jah Lloyd was popular Rastafarian poet/broadcaster, Mutabaruka, who told the newspaper that he spoke to Jah Lloyd by phone last Wednesday night when he (Jah Lloyd) called him at Irie FM to discuss developments in Ethiopia on his (Mutabaruka's) weekly Cutting Edge talk show. However, the show had not yet come on air.
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