Natty Dreadlocks The Study of the Youth Black Faith and the Bobo Dreads

Natty Dreadlocks The Study of the Youth Black Faith and the Bobo DreadsThe most outstanding characteristic of the Rastafarians is then- hairs-breadth. Although other people view dreadlocks as disgusting, smelly, and as a symbol of craziness, the Rastas see the dreadlocks as part of who they are and what they stand for. The longer and more developed their dreads are represents their status and their faith. They think of their hair as a crown, like the crown of their king, Halle Selassie, or to the main of the lion symbolizing male strength. The Rastas crowns let people know they are rebelling against oppression and do not want tofit inwith the people that view them as freaks. They started this trend to go against organizational life and challenge the social and religious norms that were regard at the time. The Youth Black Faith and later the Bobo Dreadlocks made great contributions to implementing the Dreadlock trend and helped break away from the oppression they endured.In the late 1940s, five brethren, channelize by their love for the Rastafarian doctrine. got together to start what would become the Youth Black Faith. These five leaders held their own on the streets. They called themselves Brother Taf, Pete, Brother Firsop, Badaman and Watson. capital of Jamaica was expanding rapidly due to peasants leaving the rustic for urban poverty. Back-o-Wall had already entered into Ackee Walk next to the large May Pen cemetery and stretched farther southernmost all the way to the seaside except for an intervening portion that the water commission owned. In Trench Town, also, slums filled up the area with footpaths and alleyways connecting them.It was at one(a) of these slums in Trench Town, Ninth Street to be exacts that Brother Taf and Pete lived. ... ... to WalterRodney , Africa World Press Inc., 1987Chevannes, Barry, Rastafari Roots and Ideology Hausman, Gerald, the Kebra Negast - The-Book-of-Rastafarian Falth--from Ethiopia and Jamaica , St. Martins Press, 1 997Internetprecise URLs may be in misconduct due to translation, and they are not the fault of the author. -Editor Jamaica atlas http //WWW. t Urknet. coin/ at I as/ 9 7 august/_I am at ca/page2. htni IThe Bobo Dread Beliefs and Rituals littp//www.envirolink.org/oneworlct/tOCLts/ettopla/rasta3.litinIDread History The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafarilittp//editcate.si.edLL/nllgrations/rasta/pic I O.htmlThe Bobo Dread Relations with the Outsidelittp //www. etiviro link. org/oneworld/tOCLIs/etiopia/rasta 1. litralThe Bobo Dread littp //www. envirolik. org/oneworld/ tOC US/eti Opt a/rasta. htm I