A voice of our own: The state of Rastafari then and now.The definitive moment

                                          THE RASTAFARI MOVEMENT IS BEING PIMPED !!!

"2016 was named the International Year of the Rastafari: One hundred years since His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I became regent of Ethiopia and 50 years since HIM Haile Selassie I’s historic visit to Jamaica.

In honor of this momentous time in the culture of Rastafari, Folklorica Records recorded a landmark Nyabinghi album at Tuff Gong studio, under the direction of Abbazero and Jah Levi, Ras Glen Browne.

Ras Ivi Tafari and Rastafari Family of Nyahbinghi presented original chants penned by Ras Ivi and his family over the last few decades.

Jah Levi will mix, master, and release the album under the California-based Folklorica Records for global dissemination. The album will be accompanied by a booklet of all original writing and artwork detailing the history of Rastafari, with input from Jake Homiak of the Smithsonian Institute and artwork by California-based Jamaican artist Abba Yahudah.

The project is inspired and directed by African Bush Doctor Abbazero and the Jah Levi Foundation for the Preservation of World Music, a non-profit international organization committed to the preservation and promotion of rare music of the world.

Nyabinghi is globally recognized as a traditional music of the Rastafarian people, originating in Jamaica and spread throughout the world. The chanting and drumming of Nyabingi is derived from African spiritual practice and is rarely recorded, making this project a critical act of cultural preservation to share with generations to come".

As stated above  Dr. Jake Homiak Of The Smithsonian Institute will  have his input  in the booklet that goes along with The Album.as of this writing the Album has not been released. The point of this discourse is to cause out That The Rastafari Council of Elders note that The identity and definition of the movement has been hijacked and defined,directed etc. by out side operatives other than Rastafari,by Jews and said Black Jew  who are in essence diametrically opposed  to the reality and truth of Rastafari movement,this is to cause out that we define our own movement. IE culture with out apology. from our perspective, The following video discourse By The Elder spokesman of The Rastafari council of Elders -Ital Iman is the essence of the premier work on the subject of Culture Bandits in Rastafari movement which stems from his work: The Rastafari Jihad from the early 2000's.

The Independent Journalist Ital Iman is the Foremost exponent of The Rastafari mystery,coordinator of Rastafari Mystery school,Author Of The Definitive Book Of The Movement:The Holy Book Of Wonder...

here is a Bio On :

"Dr. Jake Homiak, the curator of  Discovering Rastafari!,  is a cultural anthropologist who has worked extensively with members of the Rastafari Movement over the past 26 years, particularly the House of Nyahbinghi and the Ethiopian African Black International Congress. This exhibit project was originally conceived and initiated with a his colleague and research partner, the late Dr. Carole Yawney, an anthropologist from York University in Toronto, Canada, who had a close 35-year association with Ras Mortimo Planno. The work of these two individuals has not only involved fieldwork in Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean, England, South Africa, Panama, the United States and Ethiopia but various forms of advocacy for Rastafari communities in Jamaica, the United States and Canada.  Discovering Rastafari!  is slated to open in the African Voices Hall of the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. sometime in 2007.

During 1980-81, Homiak lived in Jamaica and did fieldwork with two of the principal Rastafari mansions, the Ethiopian African Black International Congress and the House of Nyahbinghi. While living in Bull Bay, St. Thomas during this time, Jake traveled to venues across Jamaica to attend Nyahbinghi celebrations held in 1980. His visits to Jamaica continued throughout the 1980s and culminated in advocacy for two delegations of Nyahbinghi Elders that traveled to the Eastern United States in 1988 and 1989. These delegations were a direct reaction to a flood of media reports during the mid-1980s that routinely linked Rastafari to violent and lawless  Jamaican posses  operating in the metropoles of the U.S. In response to this misrepresentation, members of the Washington, D.C. Rastafari community approached Dr. Homiak to help them organize an appropriate response. This involved planning and securing funding for a series of public programs that would bring Nyahbinghi Elders to the U.S. to educate the public about the true nature of the movement and its culture. Through his Smithsonian contacts, Jake assisted the community in securing visas for the Elders and in organizing institutional venues for these stalwarts of the faith. Over the intervening years, Dr. Homiak has periodically been called upon to testify in court proceedings on behalf of Rastafari defendants, including incarcerated members of the movement who seek to have their cultural and spiritual practices recognized by the state.

Jake Homiak received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1985 and is currently the Director of the Anthropology Collection & Archives Program at the Smithsonian s Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland. He has general oversight for the Department of Anthropology s nearly two and a half million cultural artifacts and archaeological specimens as well as the manuscript, photographic, and film holdings of its National Anthropological Archives and the Human Studies Film Archives. Homiak coordinates access and outreach to a broad range of scholars and Native visitors who use these resources for academic research, publication, exhibition, and heritage research."

Just today 9-20-2018

I came across the following information concerning Ras Ivy Tafari and our subject at hand,via pocket dial mode. just pulled phone out of my pocket and the following information presented it self in a very timely manner:The following gives us a little history of this subject...

Nyahbinghi ancient Council Nyahbinghi Guyana

June 25, 2013 at 5:04 AM ·

The Council of RasTafari Ancients is under a serious attack from Ras Ivy Tafari and his Confederates. The Council

of Icients not only consist of the Nyahbinghi Ancients but the 12 Tribes of Isreal the Bobo Shanty Order , Haile

Sellassie I School of Vision and The Royal Ethiopian Judah Coptic Church in Jamaica.The Council Of Icients as

been functioning from way in the early riseing of the faith when they were called the Assemby of Elders from 1

welcome ave, Kingston, when Prince Emanuel and Bongo Time , Bongo Loyd etc. were all in one assembly.Today

I&I as manage to have the ancients of all mansion in one assemby as it was because only in the true ancients there

could be no division, the ancients are the foundation for truth and rights as far as the back to Afrika movement is

concern. Since the seventies when the intelectual youth were recruited they have manage to segregate the ancients

with their CIA ilfiltration to put aside the concept of a back to Afrika programm starting with the UWI research that

was done on the RasTafari movement in 1961. Ras Jah Loyd was the first intelectual Youth to represent the

ancients in pen work , he took things in his own hands and was Gazzeted in the News Paper by the Ancients in the

seventies. Since Then Ras Ivy Tafari has been functioning as the Ilect of Pen with Ras Mcpherson . After Ras

Mcpherson seen some of the ilfiltration he wrote a book on the movement and had to take Assylum in the USA in

1992 because the book called, sixty Years of RasTari Politics revealed by names some of those who continue to

ilfiltrate the movement likes of Irie Ions name is in the Book. Look up that Book the UWI is got it there under cover.

After Ras Mcphereson had to run away from those who he revaeled as agents in the movement then Ras Ivy had

open field to do has he wish. So by 1998 he could set up organizations right round the Globe to overthrow the

Nyahbinghi oder of administration. In England A national council was set, in America IDOR was set, in the

Caribbean CRO was set as umbrella organization and in Jamaica the Cutting Edge was set up. This was why by

2000 Ras Ivy stop functioning in the Nyahbinghi Order to operate with CRO and a charter of the Cutting edge in

Jamaica

Him Functioning as chair for his charter in May pen with his co partner in crime Ras Carva who has been the

Treasurer of the Nyahbinghi House from in the seventies both live in May Pen.Ras Irie Ions also was functioning a

charter of the cutting edge in linstead his community. Their cutting Edge administration sieze in May Pen when Ras

Carva was band from the school where they keep meetings for violation of the student. After their administration

was complete 2007 after Ras Ivy successfully institute RasTafari archives in the Smithsonians . The ancient Council

rise in 2003 after the Global conference, so now he is trying to enter forward into the Nyahbinghi Order here to put a

stopage to the ancient council. He has used Ras Junior Mannings and Ras Iration to continue do his fraud work until

those two caracter died he has got to do now for himself so he has now recruited Sis Mitsy to do his work when Sis

ter Mitsy has not been attending Nyahbinghi for the past 10 years but just recently recriuted as a Daughta to

represent an administration of which she Knows nothing of.