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"My review." This book is not a renunciation of anyone and anything this is my own experience as I was led by Jesus to write this work. I know personally many Rastafari who are famous musicians in the Caribbean and globally Iam no novice to that life I have personally experienced Shamanism within Rastafari and I am well aware of what I write many people think that they understand Caribbean life as a result of listening to reggae music. Nothing could be farther from the truth Caribbean people are a people rooted in the mysticism of our ancestors and we are also a people that have been educated largely by a post-colonial Christian educational system, it is at this system of educational colonialism that the Rastafari have risen up against . Many foolish North American's and European's come to the Caribbean especially middle aged white women who seek to experience sexual adventures and escapades they come to the hotels and beaches and go with shiftless mainly uneducated...

Rupert Lewis wrote a scholarly analysis on the Rastafarians which he entitled:  Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians: Continuity and Discontinuity.In it he made certain interesting points and inferences, which are notable for establishing a historically accurate documentary for the time period in question.  I will include some of the more dynamic and poignant, which as the reader will see bears up many points made in the present work. I think the following from Lewis is poignant in understanding the viewpoints of Howell and Marcus Garvey; “The anticolonial content of Howell's preaching was clear in his message that black people's only true king was Emperor Haile Selassie. But Garvey did not approve of Howell's teaching and rejected his claims that Selassie was God”. Robert Hill in his book often quoted in this work wrote that; Garvey refused to allow Howell to sell the emperors picture in Edelweis Park, Jamaican headquarters of the UNIA. Lewis went on to state tha...