“I believe in Haile Selassie I, the Ethiopian emperor who will deliver us to the promised land,” said Okello, 28. “Youths who are black have been oppressed since the days of colonization,” said Ras Malonza, a Rastafarian leader in Nairobi. In time, he said, “we will be repatriated to Ethiopia, which is our promised land by Haile Selassie. Black youths will no longer be oppressed and we will live in freedom and peace.”Malonza, 43, who was once a staunch Catholic, said he regrets the years he wasted not believing in Haile Selassie. “Our God is black and the Bible confirms that.”Anyway, local leader say, Rastafarianism doesn’t equate to freedom in Kenya’s socially conservative urban milieu.

Source: Ethiopian News April 17, 2019 15:45 UTC