Some notes on Rastafari

Guyanese Rastafari Makonnen (of Guyana) (left) now an official of the Shashemenee Settlement on land given by Haile Selassie, with Rastafari Elders who returned to Ethiopia many decades ago. This photo was taken a few months ago. … From Jamaica to Buxton

by A. A. Fenty

I share these notes for two main reasons. Firstly, it is a (personal) pity that certain rogue elements – many phony – of the Rastafarian community have communicated a negative image of that movement to the wider society.

Pity too that that perception now emanates from the proud village of BUXTON – the East Coast, Demerara Community which location and history have produced the Younges, the Kwayanas, the Paynes, the Parrises, et al.