Horace Campbell

Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney is a study of the Rastafarian Movement in all its manifestations, from its evolution in the hills of Jamaica to its present manifestations in the streets of Birmingham and the Shashamane Settlement in Ethiopia. It traces the cultural, political and spiritual sources of this movement of resistance, highlighting the quest for change among an oppressed people.
This book serves to break the intellectual traditions which placed the stamp of millenarianism on Rasta.

“Campbell’s book is thrice welcome, because it deals with the historical, the political and the subjective levels of Rastafari.”   Eusi Kwayana

“Rastafari has extended from a small and formerly undesirable cult into a dominant force which influences all levels of national life; and it has done so against formidable odds, political harassment and general condemnation. The Rastafari has dramatised the question that has always been uncomfortable in Caribbean history, and the question is where you stand in relation to Blackness.”   George Lamming

• 210 x 148 mm
• 252 pages
• Paperback

HORACE CAMPBELL is a writer, teacher and political activist who has taught in Africa, the Caribbean, Britain and North America.