Dreadlocks, cannabis, reggae: think of Jamaica and aspects of Rastafari culture commonly leap to mind. On the island, however ...

HAVANA, Cuba (IPS) – Long dreadlocks stuffed into trademark red, black, green and yellow tams (knitted caps), which sometimes carry a symbol of an Afro-Cuban religion or even a US flag, Bob Marley ...

Hundreds of Rastafarians came together last month in Jamaica, the birthplace of the movement, for the weeklong Rastafari Global Reasoning 2003. The official motto for the worldwide meeting, which ...

Their dreadlocked image and marijuana-laced mysticism are used to promote Jamaica as a tranquil tourist destination yet Rastafarians say they're treated as second-class citizens at home. The religion ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Attorney-at-law Marcus Goffe is upset that members of the Rastafari community who plant ganja for sacramental purposes are still being subjected to what he calls constant ...

A group of Rasta’s on Wednesday embarked on a big walk along Haile Selassie Road in Blantyre to raise funds for the roofing of their worship temple and the construction of a new primary school block ...

ZOMBA, Malawi (Reuters) - Malawi's Rastafarians are cheering a court ruling that will allow their children to go to school with dreadlocks. Rastafarianism was upheld as a religion and banning ...

There are just about a million Rastafarians on the planet but they punch well above their weight. Almost everyone has heard of them, of the musician Bob Marley and the island of Jamaica, where the ...

Bob Marley used to drink an Irish moss-based concoction every morning. This red seaweed, which does not exactly evoke the Caribbean, was introduced to Jamaica in the 17th century by Irish immigrant ...

Rastafarians in Malawi are intensifying their push for the government to lift its ban on students attending school wearing dreadlocks as they staged protests on Wednesday at the Civic Office in ...