EDITOR, The TribuneHUNDREDS of Bahamians who are adherents of the Rastafari faith recently commemorated the coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as the 225th emperor of Ethiopia on November 2, 1930. Even Ras Tafari himself admitted to Ethiopian aristocrats that the Solomonic legend was just that – a legend. Ironically, Ras Tafari didn’t consider himself to be black. Bahamian Rastas, along with their religious counterparts throughout the Caribbean and the rest of the world, are guilty of cognitive dissonance. Notwithstanding the explanation given for Ras Tafari’s death as a result of respiratory failure, many Ethiopians believe that their monarch was assassinated by the Junta military.

Source: Ethiopian News November 29, 2018 21:56 UTC