Ras Nathaniel in 2004
On October 5, 2000, I, a native of Chicago, presented the Ethiopia to Chicago Exhibit to the Association of African Historians (AAH) at the Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern University. The presentation was so extraordinary, that I was invited to present it again one month later, November 4, 2000 to the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC). Five years later, Nana Baffour Amankwaitia II (Dr. Asia Hilliard III) said, “I still have my copy of the excellent piece that you did. I am waiting for more of your work. . . I am not at all surprised at the work that you have pursued and know that much more is to come.”
Sometime in the late fall of 2002, Ras Antar called me and said,
“Hail Ras Nathaniel. Did you see that there is a quiz on the Rastaites website? Answer all the questions correctly and you win a plane ticket to Ethiopia. You should enter the contest and take the quiz! If anyone can win, it would be you. You know more about this than anyone I know!”
Thus, I answered the quiz questions (see below) and submitted my entry for the contest sponsored by the African Caribbean Self Help Foundation and its founder, Ras Xylon, of the Rastafari Agricultural Music School in Ethiopia. I didn’t think I would win, but I entered anyway. Who knows?
I was surprised when I received an email saying that I won the contest! At the time, I lived together with my Rastafari wife, Sister Myrah. So I returned their message and told them that it was only because of her supporting me that I could gain all that knowledge to answer the questions. So impressed with this, they sent my a second email saying, “We are sending you two plane tickets - one for you and one for Sister Myrah!”
And that is how I went to Africa for the first time in my life. I didn’t buy a ticket, I earned one becasue of education and my choice to follow Rastafari. . . . . To me, that was a sign, a spiritual matter . . . . a CALLING. . . .
Ras Xylon
RAS NATHANIEL ARRIVES IN ETHIOPIA!
The following was published on the Rastaites website:
“NEWS FROM SHASHAMANE
Since May 5 2002 , there has been lots of communication between Ethiopia and the outside World of scattered Rastafari. Rastafari_Agrocultural_School web site started the Community off to a Mighty start as the Original Rastafari website in Ethiopia and Shashemene . The Site have enjoyed the fruits of Participation through networking , as great is the company of those that publish it . Through the help from H.I.M. who is at all time strengthening the efforts of I&I at R.A.S. , I&I give I-more thanks and is extremely grateful to H.I.M. for who I&I am , Blessings will continue to flow to the loyal bretheren and sistren who have made an effort to participate & communicate so as to make the reality full , Special thanks.
The Ethiopian year started in September with Jah Rastafari richest blessings, I&I at Rastafari Agro-cultural School is still working at fulfilling this portion of the works we had already started with Community Development as I&I main Focality. I&I are gratified to have contributed to the build up of interest at home and abroad , I&I received the Reggae Train Award for the Website within the first one month . Much credit goes out to Sister Mary Dread for her unswerving efforts and her personal RastaItes.com contribution which has assisted in making the Networking of Rastafari at home and abroad a fulfillment , I&I at R.A.S. I&I originally approached Ethiopian Airlines who was not able to participate at this time but pledged support in the future. I&I effectuated a Quiz page and one Ras made a wholehearted attempt and was rewarded.
On the 24th of December arrived from the Rastafari Community in Chicago, Co-ordinator of the Bright Sun Solar project, Issembly of Rastafari Iniversal Education (IRIE), Shashemane Creations . Ras Nathaniel and his wife Sister Myrah arrived in Addis Abbaba , Ethiopia and was received by Ras Wolde Tagass King of the E.W.F. Inc. , Ras Ibi and Ras Xylon of the Rastafari Agrocultural School Project. Ras Nathaniel is the recipient of the Rastafari_Agrocultural_School Quiz and was Awarded two airline tickets courtesy of the R.A.S. Project
Ras Nathaniel brought along with him 5 boxes of Organic Soyabean Seeds weighing over 150 kilo (330 lbs.) for immediate cultivation , some of these seeds was given to Ras Wolde of the Ethiopian World Federation Inc.
Ras Xylon was presented with a cheque of US$718.91 cents this will go into the operations and running of R.A.S. Project, It is agreed by our planning committee to use this fund to purchase a brick making machine so as to contribute to Construction and development of the Community.
On the following day Ras Nathaniel met the Chairman of the J.R.D.C. Ras Desmond Martin at the Hawaris Hotel where they stayed for their first night , Together I&I all trodded up to the Home of Rastafari Goahe Muuzyka Academy where I&I listened to the recording done in Shashamane with the Twelve tribes of Israel band featuring Ras Desmond Martin on lead vocals , begging for the lord , to give us a helping hand and take us to the promised land yes take us to the promised land.
I&I will continue to express I&I free thoughts as I&I experience it . Questions are being asked why is R.A.S. Project not highlighted on the new J.R.D.C. page? One of I good sistren say it is politics , an Idrens call it piracy or I would say it could be a part of a Conspiracy , but who want to do , let it be done in righteousness , when R.A.S. was effected there was no Rastafari NGO's in Shashamene and as a member of the freewill trod which the Nyahbinghi Order represents I&I as Rastafari Agro Cultural School community consultants have been doing our Projects and as it go regardless of the Sabotages I&I should get on with it through the POWER OF H.I.M. HAILE SELLASSIE 1ST.
The Ethiopian World Federation Inc. and the Jamaica Rastafari Development Community should put their petty grudges and differences aside and serve Rastafari to effect a Collectivity within Shashamene Community. Personal differences will always arise hence the need for tolerance , Word is Wind but blows is unkind. Internationally every Rastafari has the right to decide his or her moral destiny and in this judgment burn Impartiality. “
Not long after I arrived, Ras Xylon took me to get registered with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Information & Culture Press and Information Department as a journalist for the Rastafari Speaks newspaper.
With official media credentials, I now had access to the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN). On February 3-4, 2003, I attended the 1st Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa and began issuing reports to the African Diaspora via the internet. I was the only African American journalist in the room when the historic Article 3(q) was adopted that officially “invite(s) and encourage(s) the full participation of Africans in the Diaspora in the building of the African Union in its capacity as an important part of our Continent.” From this decision, the African Diaspora would become designated as the 6th Region of the African Union.
Aware that Malcom X had also been an observer at the AU’s predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), I now felt an awesome responsibility to the African Diaspora, and particularly to the Rastafari community, to keep them informed of all things related to the African Union. This idea using the Rastites website which archived all of my messages.
From 2002 to 2007, I was the Coordinator of the Issembly for Rastafari Iniversal Education (I.R.I.E.) which served as a Ministry of Education for the Rastafari Family Worldwide. All my work in the I.R.I.E Ministry of Education, including emails, articles, commentaries and reports are documented in the five volume, 1,500 page work entitled, COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE! 21ST CENTURY BLACK PROPHETIC FAITH AND PAN AFRICAN DIPLOMACY. [See below]
Besides attending the First Extraordinary Session of the African Union, and become the Founder of the AU 6th Region Education Campaign, I also helped to negotiate the immigration issues of the Rastafri community in Shashemane. In this way I started my career after leaving Yale University as a minister of education, a minister of foreign affairs, an ambassador, an envoy and a diplomat. Indeed, I was fulfilling HIM Haile Selassie’s prophecy
“All of you young people who have been given the enriching opportunity of an advanced education will in the future be called upon to shoulder in varying degrees the responsibility for leading and serving the nation."
I returned to the United States in the late fall of 2003 in order to lead the Jubilee 50 Year Commemoration of HIM Haile Selassie I’s first visit to the United States (1954-2004). I created a traveling exhibition of more than 100 pieces that was featured at the Smithsonian. I also published a book as well. I also published a Proposal on the “HOW” to Istablish the Rastafari International Secretariat by May 25, 2004.
I was given exclusive access and permission by Ato Demeke Berhane, Director of Archives at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to publish the official photographs of HIM Halie Selassie I’s First Visit to the United States in 1954 https://www.amazon.com/Anniversary-Imperial-Majesty-Haile-Selassie/dp/1412037026
On June 8, 2004 I experienced the supernatural direct communication with HIM durning the Venus Transit. During this "astronomical event of the year" writes Carl Johan Calleman, PH.D,
“it is hard to avoid the impressions that the very transit of Venus across the Sun has somehow served to concentrate these energies and has sent an intensifying beam to planet Earth. During the Venus transits the cosmic energies were thus strongly amplified. There are however many good reasons to believe that the Venus transit on June 8, 2004. . . will herald a development of communications between human beings that is not based on technology. The chief reason is that we are now at a stage . . . that favors the right brain half and the intuitive faculties of our mind that are mediated by this. And so, we may expect that the upcoming Venus transit will launch an era of communications utilizing mental rather than electromagnetic fields. . . . Since there is no person alive today who was born in 1882 or earlier the Venus transit in 2004 will be everyone's first such experience.”
No human alive had previously witnessed one; the last one prior to that occurred on 6 December 1882. On that day in 2004 at the exact moment of the Venus Transit, I was standing on the exact spot where HIM Haile Selassie I had visited and thereby received, through this intensified concentration of energy and direct divine communication particular to HIM Haile Selassie and his Jubilee visit to Chicago, His Imperial Majesty’s theocratic appointment as the Ilect of Records of the Star Order of Ethiopia - a direct divine commission from God to bring about the Repatriation of the Afrodescendant peoples.
Throughout the rest of the year I traveled from Chicago to Atlanta to Washington DC to New York, to Hartford, to Boston and across to Los Angeles.
Rastafari mini-summit, October 21, 2003, Washington DC. Ras Nathaniel in the center. The white man in the front row (second from the right) is Jake Homiak of the Smithsonian Institute. Immediately upon returning from Ethiopia, Ras Nathaniel began mobilizing the Rastafari community in the United States for the upcoming Jubilee Commemoration of HIM Haile Selassie I First Visit to the United States in May 1954. Afterwards, Ras Nathaniel then traveled throught the Caribbean and Central America preparing for the Rastafari Inity Summit in Azania and the Ethiopian Millennium Repatriation.
From left to right: Ras Nathaniel, Ras Jaberi, Ras Ravin-I in Massachusettes
Below: Ras Nathaniel in Trinidad and Tobago 2005
Panama: Ras Nathaniel on funde drumjust left of the Ras Jaberi on bass drum. Full report: https://web.archive.org/web/20060902235707/http://www.rastaites.com/news/hearticals/panama/FinalSummitReport2005.pdf
I co-organized the First Rastafari Diasporic Summit in the Hispanic World in Panama from May 23 to May 30, 2005. In August I traveled to Trindad and Tobago and spent two weeks with the Rastafari community in Fyzabaad. I gave the Keynot Address for the Inaugural Marcus Garvey Lecture Sponsored by the Pan African Commission of Barbados at Frank Collymore Hall Bridgetown, Barbados on August 21, 2005.
Article from the Barbados Sun newspaper.
In Miami I participated in HIM Haile Selassie I Grand Coronation 75th Jubilee Celebration, November 2, 2005, and returned to Atlanta for the Ethiopian World Federation Forum. On December 23, 2005, I signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Western Hemisphere African Diaspora Network (WHADN) creating the AU 6th Region Education Campaign. Back in April 18, 2003, the African Union in conjunction with the Foundation for Democracy in Africa (FDA) and members of WHADN, announced plans for establishing technical definitions of the Diaspora and the process of effectively integrating the Diaspora into the organs and programs of the African Union, notably the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOC). Members of WHADN and the AU delegation agreed that participants should become actively involved in this process by forwarding proposals thru the WHADN Secretariat to the AU Commission for consideration and taking ownership of the outcomes of adopted projects. It was stressed that WHADN is a network in which Diaspora organizations could freely mobilize and coordinate their interaction with the African Union on an equal basis, WHADN to serve as the “functional interface mechanism with the AU.” Among the first groups to submit a proposal to WHADN for consideration by the AU Commission was The Issembly for Rastafari Iniversal Education (IRIE). Recognizing that WHADN was “a functional interface mechanism with the AU” and “the first step of membership” in the AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative mandated to coordinate events in 2006 to popularize the AU, I, seeking funding and more immediate and effective means towards Repatriation to Africa, sought to utilize this new mechanism to present to the African Union the Rastafari Repatriation Census Proposal for the Start of the Ethiopian Millennium (September 11,2007).
According to the proposal, “Based on results already obtained in three Repatriation Census Workshops, IRIE estimates that there is a minimum of 100 cities or locations with 100 people with various skill sets, representing a minimum of $300,000 per city plus equipment. That translates into Brain Gain of 10,000 persons and US $30 million in financial resources plus equipment available for repatriation. . . . By conducting a Repatriation Census, the African Union will immediately benefit from having a central skills technician resource database from which they could fill skills shortages in various sectors of the African Continent’s economy. . . . This proposal seeks to combine the mandate for African Union Educational Workshops with the mandate to develop a Central Diaspora Skills Resource Bank with the existing Repatriation Census Workshops being conducted by the Issembly for Rastafari Iniversal Education.” The proposal was approved and thus was born the African Union 6th Region 2006 Education Campaign with Ras Nathaniel as its Director.
Immediately after signing the MOU, from January 4 to 10, 2006, I traveled to Jamaica to strategize with the Rastafari community on that island. A plan was eventually approved to host a Rastafari Global Unity Conference in South Africa (Azania). On November 8th, I arrived in Azania. As I was preparing to depart from the plane, I heard drumming and singing. When the door opened, I saw about thirty Rastas waiting for me with Ethiopian flags. A group of Rastafari Elders of Zulu and Xhosa ancestry ascended the steps of the plane and explained to me that whenever a “son of the soil” returns home after a long journey, he receives a new name. Having journeyed far and long, the person returns as a “new” man, thus requiring a “new” name. The elders told me that while I was on ancestral soil, my ancestors required that I have an ancestral name that they could call. Thus, the elders gave me the name “Siphiwe” which means “gift of the creator” and the surname Baleka which means “fast” and “he who escaped”. This was profoundly important to me.
On November 9, I along with Ras Tekla Haymanot, Sister Yaa Ashantewaa, and Ras Gareth Prince, appeared on South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) TV Africa Live program to explain the Rastafari position.
Immediately after returning from Azania, I traveled to Honduras at the end of November for the Central American Black Organization (CABO) 12th Assembly in La Ceiba Honduras as a member of the Pan African Organizing Committee (PAOC). In Honduras, I was a roommate of elder Dr. Pauulu Kamarakafego, CEO of the Pan-African Movement to the United Nations. Dr. Kamarakafego has served as a counselor, consultant, official and friend to Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyere, CLR James, Walter Rodney and various African liberation movements. Dr. Kamarakafego was responsible for organizing the 6th Pan African Congress in Tanzania in 1969. With Dr. David Horne of the PAOC, I made a presentation on the AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative and the process for electing the twenty representatives to the AU’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC).
On January 6, 2007, at the request of the Pan African Community Coalition (PACC) and the Pan Afrikan Organizing Committee (PAOC), I was invited to the New York Town Hall Meeting to discuss and supervise the election of New York’s Diaspora Representatives to the African Union (AU). After his presentation, the town hall discussed the formation of the Community Council of Elders (CCE) that conducted the election on January 27th.
With African Diaspora elections underway and spreading throughout the Diaspora, I then attended the African Union Grand Debate in Ghana in July as Coordinator for IRIE and Director of the AU 6th Region Campaign. At this event, there were many other representatives and observers from the African Diaspora. My main focus was on the AU 6th Region Diaspora Initiative, the elections for its representatives to ECOSOC, and the issue of citizenship for members of the 6th Region. I was a vocal supporter of a continental passport and setting up passport bureaus in African airports that could efficiently issue a Pan African passport to AU 6th Region members upon arrival anywhere on the continent.
Finally, working with my friend and comrade, Ras Ikael Tafari, who was the Commissioner of Pan African Affairs for the Government of Barbados, I helped to set the agenda for the Africa Diaspora Global Conference facilitated by the Republic of South Africa on behalf of the African Union, and jointly organized by the AU, CARICOM and the Government of Barbados, August 27-28, 2007. The context of the event was the Bicentennial Global Dialogue on “Slave Trade, Reconciliation and Social Justice.” I submitted a last-ditch proposal for $10 million funding from the governments in attendance, including Venezuela, Brazil and China, for the Ethiopian Millennium Repatriation and an emergency airlift of everyone that had completed Repatriation Census forms in a fashion similar to Operation Solomon, which, on Africa Day, May 25, 1991, airlifted 10,000 Ethiopian Falasha Jews to Israel, an effort kept secret by the military and organized by the American Association of Ethiopian Jews. TIn my opinion, Rastafarians had every right to be repatriated to their spiritual mecca, Ethiopia.
The proposal was rejected, September 11, 2007 came and went, and with my Five-Year Plan now ending in failure, Ras Nathaniel disappeared. On May 12, 2008, Ras Nathaniel legally changed his name to Siphiwe Baleka in order to honor his ancestors.
RASTAFARI QUIZ
What was Marcus Garvey's middle name?
Where was Marcus Garvey born?
Which Parish was Marcus Garvey born in?
Who was Alexander Bedward?
What was the name of Bedward's vision?
Who was Leonard Howell?
What other influences formed Howell's thinking?
What was the name of Howell's first camp?
When did Howell pass?
What were the circumstances of Howell's demise?
Who was Joseph Nathaniel Hibbert?
What was JNH main interest?
What was the name of JNH first organ?
Out of Dunkley, Hibbert, Howell and Hinds, who was at H.I.M. Coronation?
Who was Dunkley?
Who was Hinds?
Who was Ferdinand Ricketts?
What was the name of Ras Boanerges organ?
What was the birth date of H.I.M.?
What date was H.I.M. Crowned?
Who else was crowned with H.I.M.?
What date was the Battle of Adowa?
What date was H.I.M. speech to the League of Nations?
Which country did H.I.M. go to in exile?
How long was H.I.M. in exile?
What date did H.I.M. return to ET.?
Which country did H.I.M. pass through on his return?
What was the name of H.I.M. dog?
What year was the EWF established?
What was the name of H.I.M. official who established EWF?
Who was the first to hold office in JA of EWF?
What No. was this local?
What No. was the local in UK?
What No was the local in USA?
What date was the E.O.C. established in JA?
What date was the E.O.C. established in UK?
What date was the E.O.C. established in Trinidad?
What date was the E.O.C. established in USA?
Who was the founder of the 12 Tribes of Israel?
What was the name of the World's First International Rastafari Artist?
Name three other pioneers of conscious music.
Name four members of the original Wailers.
Give seven names of the sons of Abraham.
What was the name of Moses' wife?
What was the nationality of Moses' wife?
Name the four rivers mentioned in Genesis.
Name the river that encompasseth ET.
Name the river that is the source of the white Nile.
Name the lake that is the source of the Nile.
In which country is this lake?
Who or what is a 'Falasha'?
Name four of the titles given to H.I.M. on his Coronation.
Name the former capital of ET.
Name H.I.M. predecessor.
Name H.I.M. father.
Give the name of H.I.M. mother.
What is believed to have happened to H.I.M. mother.
Give the name of the first ET Patriarch.
What year did E.O.C. gain autonomy from Egypt?
Name the first Ethiopian King.
In which Parish was Pinnacle founded?
Give three other names used for ganja.
Where did the concept of locks or matted hair originate from?
Name three characters in the Bible who are known to have worn locks?
How is Solomon described in the Bible?
How is the Ancient of Days described in the Bible?
What chapter in the Bible describes the Ancient of Days?
Which character in the Bible received the vision of Revelation?
What does Revelation 5:5 state?
Which chapter in Isaiah is of great significance to Rastafarians?
Which chapter of the New Testament shows the lineage of Jesus Christ?
What relationship does Jesus the Christ hold with H.I.M.?
Was Jesus the Christ crowned whilst on Earth? (more that one answer acceptable here)
Who was John the Baptist in the bible?
How was he related to Christ?
How long did Christ spend in ET?
Did Christ visit India?
Did Christ visit Egypt?
Which Apostle is known to have taken the Gospel to India?
Which Apostle is known to have met with an Ethiopian Official?
Where in the Bible can this be found?
What is the Ancient language of ET called?
Which other country is this language known to have been used?
Name an Ethiopian King who had a burial in a Pyramid?
What are the Ethiopian colours?
How is the ET. flag different in H.I.M. time to now?
In which country, apart from JA, was H.I.M. seen as the returned Christ in the early advent of Rastafari philosophy?
What was H.I.M. family name?
What was H.I.M. name at baptism?
At what age was H.I.M. baptised?
Name one Mystical occurrence pertaining to H.I.M. at any age.
Give a general outline of H.I.M. early routine during H.I.M. Emperorship.
Give the date of the Italian Invasion preceding World War 2
Name the leader of this invasion.
Which Church blessed this invasion?
Name a Rastafarian Attorney-at-law (present).
Name a Rastafarian Historian (present).
Name a sound system that is promoting and has been promoting since the seventies Rastafari music in the UK (present).
Name the artist of the most well known group who dispelled Rastafari doctrine whose group had the initials MRR?
Name three vocal artists who have lost their lives in the field of music whilst promoting Rastafari Culture.
Which passage in the Bible qualifies the use of the name JAH for God?
compiled 21/12/1995
COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE! 21ST CENTURY BLACK PROPHETIC FAITH AND PAN AFRICAN DIPLOMACY
When the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001 – the same day that Ethiopians celebrate New Year’s Day – a few black men in America interpreted this event as the fulfillment of the biblical book of Revelations Chapter 18. Verses 4 and 5 commanded them to “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven and God has remembered her crimes”. Obediently, Ras Nathaniel organized a mass Repatriation movement and led a diplomatic effort at the African Union on behalf of an estimated one million Rastafarians. There was just six years before the prophecy fulfilled for the Ethiopian Millennium which, on the western Gregorian calendar would begin on September 11, 2007.
In 1619, the first 20 Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia. They all had one common desire: return to their home in Africa. In every period since that time to the present, the most learned, respected and courageous of the Africans and their descendants concluded that they must either revolt against their enslavers or find some way to return to their home, the land which the Bible called “Ethiopia”. From this land a Universal Black King would be born with the titles King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of Judah. Biblical prophets claimed that Princes would come out of her, that Ethiopia would stretch forth her hands, and her scattered, captive children would be brought home. In every period in American history, black men remained faithful to these scriptures and rejected America’s forced assimilation. Men like
George Liele, 1783
Prince Hall 1787
John Marrant 1791
Robert Alexander Young 1829
David Walker 1829
Martin Delaney 1836-1852
Henry Highland Garnett 1843
Edward Wilmott Blyden 1860’s
Bishop Henry McNeil Turner 1880
William Ellis 1903
Robert Athly Rogers, 1913-1924
Grover Redding, 1917
Clayton Adams (Charles Henry Holmes) 1917
Reverend James Morris Webb 1919-1925
Marcus Garvey 1919-1924
Malcolm X 1964
Ras Nathaniel adds his name to the list.
Come Out of Her My People! tells the story of how these biblical prophesies actually happened in the 20th Century and how the Black Exodus of Rastafari people ultimately failed.
Contents Introduction......................................................................... 0
Report on Shashemane Solar PV......................................... 5
AU, President Mbeki on African Diasopora.......................18
HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL RASTAFARI CONFERENCE IN 2004 (USA).............................................................23
Letter to the African Union ...............................................30
Answers to Repatriation Questions received and answered by Ras Nathaniel................................................................36
HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY EMPRESS MENEN SLAYS THE DRAGON!...........................................................................39
REASONED STEPS TOWARDS REPATRIATION TO ETHIOPIA: STAR ORDER FIVE YEAR PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS........43
NATIONALITY, NATURALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP ISSUES: ETHIOPIAN LAW OF INTEREST TO THE RASTAFARI FAMILY...............................................................................59
REPATRIATION CENSUS UPDATE.......................................65
More Istory of OAARU/Rastafari National Conference.....67
Rastafari at the African Union Update ..............................75
ZION PSALM 1600 DAYS BEFORE THE ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM.....................................................................79
April 21, 2003 Grounation Day and Rastafari Repatriation ...........................................................................................84
April 22, 2003 RASTAFARI GROUNDATION AT THE AFRICAN UNION ...............................................................................89
May 5, 2003 May 5th Great Ethiopian Anniversary .........93
IRIE STAR ORDER REPORT HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (AEC) UP TO THE CREATION OF 3 THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT (NEPAD).............................................................................96
ISSEMBLY FOR RASTAFARI INIVERSAL EDUCATION (IRIE) STAR ORDER REPORT: ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE RASTAFARI FAMILY WORLDWIDE........108
ISSEMBLY FOR RASTAFARI INIVERSAL EDUCATION (IRIE) STAR ORDER REPORT: UPDATE ON ASSIGNMENTS AND SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE COURSES OF ACTION MAY 2003 .........................................................................................122
RASTAFARI FAMILY WORLDWIDE SUGGESTED REPATRIATION TALKING POINTS FOR FOR THE AFRICAN UNION........................................153
A ZION PSALM 1555 DAYS BEFORE ANOTHER ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM ................................................161
SHASHEMANE CONTROVERSIES......................................167
September 18, 2003 Towrds Rastafari Repatriation By The Ethiopian Millennium......................................................184
African Union, NEPAD & Development.......................189
Setting the Stage & the Way Forward.........................195
"Citizen" Centered Development................................196
Consumption, World Consumerism, and African Development...............................................................201
Reconnecting with the Diaspora ................................. 205
Defining Diaspora ........................................................207
Culture as the missing link...........................................213
Rastafari as The Pan African Spiritual and Cultural Leaders........................................................................216
Rastafari Culture (“Way of life”)..................................226
Pro-Human Development ...........................................233 4
The Abdominal Brain: The Central Brain in the Solar Plexus ..........................................................................235
The Holy Herb: Sacrament and Incense for the Holy Temple of the Body .....................................................240
Marginalization from Mainstream ..............................252
Marginalization from OAU/AU....................................256
1980-2003 Rastafari Communications to the OAU.....258
Reparations over Repatriation.....................................260
Repatriation: The Way Forward..................................263
Repatriation According to HIM................................279
The Problems of Ethiopia's Development Post WWII . 284
Repatriation in the context of NEPAD.........................287
Obstacles to Repatriation............................................292
Obstacles to Repatriation Outside the Rastafari Movemant...................................................................306
Land.............................................................................315
Cannabis/Hemp/Ganja as Public Enemy #1 ................327
African Elite Fear of the Rastafari Judgment...............335
Solution: Recognition of Diaspora's Right of Return, Instant AU Citizenship at Airport Bureaus, Land, Hemp Cultivation and an Enabling Environment...................337
Kwankwa: The Missing Link in Rastafari Repatriation and African Development ..................................................337
Africa Must Be Free.....................................................350
Holy Order of Commitment and Counter-Elite ...........352
REFERENCES: ...............................................................354
21st October 2003 A Rastafari Mini-Summit in Washington D.C. ..................................................................................363
Istory of Nyahbinghi ........................................................367
Proposal on the "HOW" to Istablish the Rastafari International Secretariat BY May 25, 2004 .....................374
About Professor Ted Vestal in Stillwater, OK ..................385
AN INTERVIEW WITH RAS XYLON, ETHIOPIA'S "GOVERNOR GENERAL" ........................................................................385
January 1, 2004 HIM Jubilee in America (1954-2004) Opens .........................................................................................394
January 15, 2004 IRIE/OAARU EAST COAST TROD REPORT .........................................................................................407
IRIE/OAARU RE: EXHIBIT AT THE SMITHSONIAN.............419
Re: Ethiopian Viewpoint on African Diaspora .................428
Unity for Repatriation + The Rebirth of Black Starliner II 438
Rasponse to EMF report March 17th..............................451
The Need for Global Rastafar Government.....................458
A VERY SERIOUS MESSAGE TO THE RASTAFARI FAMILY WORLDWIDE 1,257 DAYS BEFORE THE ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM...................................................................458
From the Rastafari Community in Washington, D.C. RE: H.I.M. first visit to Washington Jubilee ......................470
MORE SHASHEMANE CONTROVERSIES...........................474
Subject: Re: Visiting Scholar of Ethiopian – African American relationship Atlanta ........................................488
The Issembly For Rastafari Iniversal Education (IRIE) in association with Addis Addarash presents The Jubilee Commemoration Exhibition of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I 1954 50 days visit from May 25thJuly 12th to the United States, Canada & Mexico...........489
May 25, 2004 An Open Letter to George W. Bush..........492
HIM Haile Selassie and Brown v Board case....................501
June 8 Jubilee/Venus Transvers Convergence in Chicago .........................................................................................512
August 2, 2004 Atlanta Jubilee Ises Report....................523
September 11, 2004........................................................528
EWF UPDATE ...................................................................528
2004 EWF/OAARU Report...............................................535
B.1. IRIE and EWF ........................................................535
B.2. Current EWF Situation..........................................538
Local #1 Seeking International Recognition................544
B.3. Future of the EWF1937 ........................................548
Ethiopian World Federation Chronology ....................554
March 18, 2005 ANKH SCIENCE.......................................568
HISTORICAL REALITY OF REPATRIATION .........................591
A journey to Ethiopia a Rastaman's Vision: from General Salem...............................................................................606
REAL ISTORY: ANU MIGRATION FROM MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON TO KMT................................................................608
THE HU/SPHINX AND THE ANCIENT MYSTERY SCHOOL OF THE ANU................................................................. 624
KING ORI TO KING ITIOPIA TO HAILE SELASSIE *LINK* ...633
LIST OF ETHIOPIAN KINGS ...........................................635
EWF 2005 Report.............................................................650
Ras Nathaniel’s Report From The First Southern California Rastafari Symposium.......................................................656
May 23 -20, 2005 Final Report of the First Rastafari Diasporic Summit in the Hispanic World.........................658
Press Release from 1st Rastafari Summit in Panama..664
August 2005 TTRU Trinidad and Tobago Groundation Report..............................................................................667
Ras Nathaniel’s Address For the Inaugural Marcus Garvey Lecture Sponsored by the Pan African Commission of Barbados Frank Collymore Hall Bridgetown, Barbados August 21, 2005...............................................................682
September 9, 2005 Making a Collective Plan of Action ..685
Towards The African Union 6th Region Diaspora Initiative & Rastafari.......................................................................687
EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF HIM HAILE SELASSIE I TEACHINGS & THE AFRICAN UNION............................690
THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AFRICAN UNION TODAY..........................................................................692
HOW THE AFRICAN UNION WAS ESTABLISHED TO INCLUDE THE AFRICAN DIASPORA ..............................697
THE AFRICAN UNION 6TH REGION DIASPORA INITIATIVE .....................................................................................698
RASTAFARI INVOLVEMENT IN THE AFRICAN UNION 6TH REGION DIASPORA INITIATIVE...............................724
Installation of Rastafari Global Secretariat before Ethiopian Millennium, September 11, 2007 ...............735
September 13, 2005........................................................739
Rap Sheet Planning..........................................................739
Proposal for a venue for the Inity Conference for ones to consider from General Salem..........................................747
(Rastafari Youth Initiative)...............................................747
September 26, 2005........................................................763
Proper Planning for Inity Conference: Star Order Five Year Plans................................................................................763
Strategic Plan of the Commission of the African Union..772 8 View from Rastafari in America.......................................774
Reasoning on the Inity Conference preparations from Sister Ijahnya ...................................................................780
How the RGS uses the Repatriation Census....................785 A Repatriation Message from General Salem.................789
The Grand Coronation 75th Jubilee Celebration in South Florida: Report from Ras Nathaniel................................. 797
NYAHBINGHI ANCIENT COUNCIL RELEASE DATED: NOV 27TH 2005 .......................................................................801
December 2, 2005 Ethiopian Peace Foundation Meets With Ethiopian Ambassador ....................................................803
The Atlanta Rastafari Community presents An Ethiopian World Federation Forum:................................................805
News on Rastafari Development & Unity in Jamaica January 2, 2006 ...............................................................808
January 12, 2006 .............................................................816
Trod to Jamaica for Liddet/Genna Ises............................816
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEENTHE ISSEMBLY FOR RASTAFARI INIVERSAL EDUCATION (IRIE) THE ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RASTAFARI UNITY (OAARU) HABESHA, INC. AND THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFRICAN DIASPORA NETWORK, INC. (WHADN).....................................................................819
Message from the Nyabinghi Order of Haile Selassie I in South Africa.....................................................................824
The need for 'Governmental Administration in the Rastafari movement' .......................................................832
South Africa gets the Green Light ...................................835
Plan for the Rastafari Inity Summit in South Africa from Ras Nathaniel .........................................................................837
Report from the Dawtas' Quarters Fundraiser in Howard University, Washington DC..............................................841
RYI: THE TROD TO JAMAICA ............................................844
THE AFRICAN UNION 6TH REGION 2006 EDUCATION CAMPAIGN.......................................................................848
Ras Mortimo Planno and Repatriation............................850
Freedom Fighter interviews Ras Nathaniel on the African Union’s Western Hemisphere African Diaspora Network (WHADN).........................................................................863
THE AFRICAN UNION COMES TO TOWN.........................867
David L. Horne, PhD.........................................................867
Conference News............................................................871
Greetings and Rastafari Blessings to the Rastafari Family Worldwide 485 days before the Ethiopian Millennium..874
Background On The Western Hemisphere African Diaspora (WHADN) and its African Union 6th Region 2006 Education Campaign.........................................................................881
AFTER BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Repatriation ..............................889
Greetings and Rastafari Blessings to the Rastafari Family 478 Days Before the Ethiopian Millennium ....................900
June 17, 2006 Rastafari, The Plebiscite & The Repatriation Census .............................................................................903
CONSIDER NOW VERY CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING FROM THE FOREMOST AFRICAN AMERICAN LEGAL EXPERT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW:.....................................................904
ISSEMBLY FOR RASTAFARI INIVERSAL EDUCATION (IRIE) DRAFT RESOLUTION ON OPERATION HOLY MOUNT ZION .........................................................................................917
ETHIOPIAN MILLENNIUM REPATRIATION: RESTORING THE EWF AND THE SHASHEMANE LAND GRANT....................931
August 7, 2006 Inity Conference Update ........................948
August 25, 2006 69 Earthday of the Ethiopian World Federation, Inc.................................................................950
Sept 3, 1937: EWF Presents Its Charter & Early Rastafari Leaders............................................................................964
Reasoning on Rastafari Economics..................................967
The Rastafari Global Inity Agenda, the EABIC and Solution to the Flag Controversy ...................................................986
November 8, 2006 Update on Rastafari Inity in Azania ..997
November 2006 Rastafari Inity and Repatriation by the Ethiopian Millennium? Istory of the Rastafari Inity Summit, November 2006 in South Africa, from Ras Nathaniel .....998
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RASTAFARI FORUM AT THE NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY (MAFIKENG CAMPUS) NOVEMBER 14, 2006.....................................................1019
Report to the Rastafari Family Worldwide: CABO XIIth Assembly in La Ceiba, Honduras ...................................1026
December 7, 2006 ORGANIZACIÓN NEGRA CENTROAMERICANA CENTRAL AMERICAN BLACKORGANIZATION CABO HOUNDARUN WURITIAN LAMIDAN MERIGA HOWULAME ...................................1034
Regarding "authorization" to convene a committee to deal with the proposed Rastafari Code of Conduct raised by Ras Ravin:.............................................................................1042
Western Hemisphere African Diaspora Network (WHADN) 2006 6th Region African Diaspora Education Campaign Update..........................................................1055
January 12, 2007 ...........................................................1070
IRIE Trod To The City Of The Great Whore....................1070
EABIC RE: Rasta Representation @ AU ECOSOCC.........1087
Subject: IRIE to EABIC RE: Rasta Representation @ AU ECOSOCC ...................................................................1090
George Liele & True Origin of Ethiopianism and Pan Africanism......................................................................1104
CHRONOLOGY OF REV. JAMES MORRIS WEBB AND THE PROPHESY OF THE COMING UNIVERSAL BLACK KING ..1129
TRUE ORIGINS OF THE RASTAFARI REPATRIATION MOVEMENT:..................................................................1136
The Holy Commandments.....................................1151
FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION: REPORT ON THE RASTAFARI GLOBAL INITY CONFERENCE IN AZANIA........................1191
I. Why the lack of delegations participating in the RGIC? ...................................................................................1194
II. WHAT HAPPENED IN AZANIA? ..............................1197
III. Trod to Tshwane...................................................1201
IV. Trod to Pretoria and Johannesburg .....................1202
V. Trod to North West Province ................................1204
VI. After North West Trod .........................................1206
VII. Pretoria Again......................................................1208
VIII. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION: RASTAFARI & THE WAY FORWARD IN AZANIA................................................1212
DRAFT TIMELINE OF ACTION FOR SEALING THE RASTAFARI NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INITY IN AZANIA (RNCI).........................................................................1213
RASTAFARI NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INITY IN AZANIA ...................................................................................1215
REGISTRATION FORM................................................1215
IX. Seal-Up of the Trod and Iditations on What Was Revealed in Azania ....................................................1219
X. HIM HAILE SELASSIE I VISION FOR REPATRIATION1223 XII. Text of Letter Requesting Ethiopian Land Grant . 1225
XIII. TEXT OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE I RESPONSE TO THE ETHIOPIAN WORLD FEDERATION, INCORPORATED REQUEST FOR LAND GRANT...........1226
XIV. TEXT OF IMPERIAL ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS LETTER TO T.E. SEALY, EDITOR OF THE JAMAICAN DAILY GLEANER VERIFYING THE LAND GRANT, SEPTEMBER 8, 1959....................1227
XV. Report on the Shashemane Land Grant, April 2005 ...................................................................................1228
XVI. Report on the Shashemane Land Grant, November 11, 2006.....................................................................1228
XVII. Report on the Shashemane Land Grant Nov 18, 2006...........................................................................1229
XVIII. July 22, 2003, Selected Rastafari Global Reasoning Recommendations ....................................................1236
January 13, 2007 ...........................................................1238
Education from the Ilect of Throne: Ras E. S. P. Mc Pherson .......................................................................................1238
Ethiopia to Atlanta: King of Kings to King......................1241
IMPERIAL ETHIOPIAN WORLD FEDERATION BA BETA KRISTIYAN HAILE SELASSIE ............................................1258
Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I 1918 - 1967....................................................................1259
Ethiopian Millennium Repatriation Proposal................1270
Ethiopian Constitutional Education from the Ilect of Throne .......................................................................................1271
RNCI-USA learns of attack against Pinnacle in JA..........1280
Rastafari Letter to US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama ...........................................................................1292
RNCI-USA Prison Outreach Program Ifending I&I Human and Religious Rights ......................................................1317
April 6, 2007 ..................................................................1331
Rastafari Representation at the African Union from Ras Nathaniel .......................................................................1331
Excerpts from the Report to the Caribbean Rastafari Organisation on the Planning Meeting for the Establishment of the Caribbean PanAfrican Network Bridgetown, Barbados, 11-12 September 2004 Executive Summary ...................................................................1341
Excerpts from the Statues of the Economic Social and Cultural Council of the African Union adopted July 2004 ...................................................................................1344
RASTAFARI ISTORY FROM THE ILECT OF THRONE: RITA, RICWC and ROYALIST STRUGGLES................................. 1348
Rastafari National Council For Inity (RNCI-USA) Commission to the Rastafari National Council for Inity (RNCI-ETHIOPIA) to submit A Report on the Condition of the Almighty Rastafari Community in Shashemane & Ethiopian Millennium Plan of Action To Ifend the Shashemane Land Grant ...............................................1372 REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF THE ALMIGHTY RASTAFARI COMMUNITY IN GHANA Submitted by Empress Imara May 25, 2007 .............1379
Three messages concerning the 6th Region of the African Union.............................................................................1389
Rastafari Speaks -- Accra, Ghana Monday, June 25, 2007 .......................................................................................1417
Notes from the African Union Grand Debate................1417
HIM WAY IS IVELOPING THE RASTAFARI NATION.........1438
August 27-28, 2007 .......................................................1447
Outcomes Document on the African Diaspora Global Conference: Caribbean Regional Consultation .............1447
Subject: IRIE's LAST TRUMPET.......................................1466
Mandate for STAR ORDER FIVE YEAR PLAN ..................1471
Ras Nathaniel ID ............................................................1474
Repatriation News Index All news from Ras Nathaniel 1480
Galatians 6:4-5
But let each one examine his own work and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load.
Psalms 26
1: Judge me, RASTAFARI; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in thee; therefore I shall not slide.
2: Examine me, RASTAFARI, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
3: For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
4: I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5: I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
6: I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, RASTAFARI:
7: That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
8: JAH RASTAFARI, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
9: Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
10: In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
11: But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
12: My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the RASTAFARI
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