SCOTTS PASS Nyahbinghi Centre in Clarendon was the venue for a "historic collective reasoning" of Rastafarians recently.
The gathering was convened by the Ethiopian Peace Foundation (EPF) to discuss plans for the visit of Zere Yacob Asfa Wossen Amha Selassie I, the 227th descendant of the Solomonic Throne of Ethiopia, grandson of emperor Haile Selassie I.
The meeting was a direct response to appeal to Rastafarians and other well-wishers to support the EPF's benefit dinner/dance, musical concert and other engagements to mark the visit.
The dinner and dance to be hosted by Zere Yacob Asfa Wossen will be held on Friday, November 1, 2002, at the Chinese Benevolent Association, 176 Old Hope Road and will be followed by a stage show featuring popular reggae artistes at the Caymanas Polo Club grounds the following day.
Those present represented The Theocracy Reign Nyahbinghi Order; The Ethiopian Orthodox Church; The Haile Selassie I Theocracy Government; The Ethiopian World Federation Charter 32; The Rastafari Centralising Organisation (RCO); The First Dreaded Order of the Nyahbinghi; The Ethiopian Salvation Union; The Ethiopian African Theocracy Union; The Twelve Tribes of Israel; The Bobo Shanti Order; and 100 Drums.
All who were present demonstrated their enthusiasm for this unprecedented call for unity.
The Ethiopian Peace Foundation Limited, incorporated in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2002, and officially launched in Manchester, England, on July 20, 2002, was established to address the repatriation efforts of Rastafarians and Ethiopians in the African Diaspora, and to initiate and support development projects in Ethiopia and Africa.
