Rastafari
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Landor is an adherent of Rastafari, an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica in the 1930s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
The Rastafari faith is rooted in the Caribbean island in the 1930s.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024
The Rastafari message was spread across the world in the 1970s by Marley and Peter Tosh, another Jamaican reggae legend and globally known Rastafari.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024
Now a poet living in the United States, Sinclair was once taught to reject all of “Babylon,” the vestiges of empire that Rastafari like her father believed kept Jamaica from its rightful glory.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023
Neither of you will know about Abraham or the Rastafari religion or the Jamaican dialect.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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