{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Rastafari","description":"A November morning in nineteen thirty. In the heart of Ethiopia, a new emperor is crowned. But thousands of miles away, in the streets and fields of colonial Jamaica, this moment will ignite something far greater than a royal ceremony.\r\n\r\nThis is the spark that would set a movement in motion—a movement born of hope, struggle, and a vision of liberation. Early twentieth-century Jamaica was a world shaped by the scars of slavery and the pressures of British colonial rule. Most Jamaicans were descendants of enslaved Africans, living under economic hardship, strict social hierarchies, and racial discrimination. Into this landscape, new ideas began to flow—ideas of black pride, African return, and self-determination. The Universal Negro Improvement Association, or UNIA, founded by Marcus Garvey, became a force for organizing and uplift. Garvey's famous call to \"look to Africa\" resonated deeply among Jamaicans searching for dignity and purpose. In the late nineteen thirties, the Ethiopian World Federation, or EWF, emerged in response to Italy's invasion of Ethiopia. Both organizations spread messages about Africa as a homeland and the promise of redemption—a promise that would soon take religious form.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 36 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecreedarchive.com/creed/rastafari","author_name":"The Archive Network"}