Obas Story: Rastafari, Purification, and Power
by George D. Colman
Category: Rastafarians

Obas Story tells of the life, religious development and work for justice of a Rastafarian on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. He was born Richard Jacobs in 1948, a brown West Indian subject of the British Empire but he became Ras Oba Chatoyer, a black African-in-Exile, a leader in the Rastafarian community and a political radical. Colmans book follows the dramatic changes in Obas life and thought and places them in the broader context of anti-colonial movements, the emergence and growth of Rastafarians in St. Vincent, and the dynamics of social and economic justice in the islands of the Eastern Caribbean.