The First Rasta
Subtitle: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
Contributors: Stephen Davis (Introduction)
Edition: Tra edition
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: January 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781556525582
Subjects: Popular culture; Rastafarianism; Reggae; Religious Cults; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Ethnic & Tribal; History; Religion / History; Cults
First sentence: When Bob Marley began his reggae crusade in 1972, he came armed not just with the best street poet's songbook since Bob Dylan, but with a strange new spiritual nationality as well.