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Book Review "Rasta and Resistance"

book's title: Rasta and Resistance

Author: Horace Campbell

translators: dina

Editors: Mubarak Harjanti

Publisher: Yogyakarta InsistPress

Edition: April 2009

Thickness: Lii + 594 pages, 13x19 cm.

Writing on the back cover:

Rasta and Resistance is the study of the Rastafari movement in all its manifestations, from its evolution in the mountains Jamaica until the kininya manifestation in the streets of the city of Birmingham and Shashamane Resettlement in Ethiopia. This book displays the sources of cultural, political, and spiritual of the resistance movement, and emphasized the demands of change that was shouted by the families of the oppressed. This book dismantle the intellectual tradition of millenarian who always puts stamp on the Rasta movement.

Lack of political studies of Rastafari in the Caribbean has always been a sad kebolongan for Revolution Caribbean. Through this book, Horace Campbell has made a big step to fill these kebolongan. It does not mean also that Caribbean writers and thinkers (we should not worry about the definition of separation between writer and thinker) are not do a lot of investigation about the Rastafari way of life with all the clarity and depth in all areas of investigation are possible, some even touched the areas of politics.
Campbell has many qualifications to conduct the discussion of this Rastafari movement. He had struggled for several years to apply the scientific theory of society into the political realities in Africa and the Caribbean, and in the process it always ignores the processes of creating a new God. - Eusi Kwayana

Horace Campbell was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1945. He is an author, teacher, and political activist who has been widely studied in Africa, the Caribbean, Britain and North America. Her work has published in two books: Four Essays on Neo-Colonialism in Uganda and Pan-Africanism: The Struggle Against Neo-Colonialism and Imperialism, also a number of articles, papers, and essays published in various journals in Britain, North America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Since 1981, he taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, East Africa.