erin-macleod

5 Articles by:

Erin MacLeod

Erin MacLeod is author of Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (NYU Press) and Editor at Large for UWI Press. (NYU Press).

Website

Encountering the promised land

The story of the Rastafari community who moved to their promised land of Ethiopia on land granted by Haile Selassie in the late 1950s as thanks for diaspora’s support during the Italian occupation.