Table of Contents

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Introduction: DECOLONIZING OUR MINDS

Punky Reggae Party

Chapter 1: PILTDOWN MAN

John’s Revelation, Africa’s Redemption, and the Haze of Human History

Rastafari: A Collective Consciousness

Arise Ye Mighty People

What Is Natural?

Chapter 2: REDISCOVERY

Transatlantic Travel Before Columbus

Ancient Egypt’s Contact with What Became South America

Abu Bakari II’s Visit from Mali

The European Invasion of North Carolina’s Outer Banks

“Gone to Croatan”

Pyramids in the Mississippi River Valley

Native American Rastas

Chapter 3: EVERY CLOVER

Rastafari: Where I-niversal Culture Meets Economic Globalization

Rastafari, Co-Ops, and Organics in Jamaica

Humankind’s Subjugation of Itself

Globalism and Dependence: One-Crop Economies

A British Cup of Indian Tea with Caribbean Sugar

Journey to Maroon Town, and a Nyahbinghi Groundation in Portland

Chapter 4: JOHN BROWN

Warrior of the Lord and of Gideon

Liberated Slaves, Liberated Consciousness?

Tulsa, Black Wall Street, and the Rise of a Central Bank

Cooperative Economics

Chapter 5: DREAM

Dreams, a poem by Marilyn Buck

Confronting the Contradictions

False Internationalism? A Principled Unity Is Our Only Hope

Race?

Setbacks in the Movement

Chapter 6: SEVENTIES HEROES

A Bloody Decade for Revolutionaries in the USA

The Caribbean Connection

Assata Shakur and the Black Liberation Army

The MOVE Organization

1974—The Overthrow of Selassie I

Chapter 7: MUMIA

More People than Ever Behind Bar$

Who Is Mumia Abu-Jamal?

Political Prisoners in the USA

Rastafari Universoul Fellowship Prison Ministry

Co-ops in Prisons

Chapter 8: KEN SARO-WIWA

Did Fascism Win World War II?

Nigeria and the Global Economy in the 1970s

Women’s Uprisings in Nigeria

Women’s Resistance in Africa Birthing a Movement in Jamaica

Structural Adjustment in Cuba and Peak Oil

Ken’s Last Words

Chapter 9: SWEET SOMALIA

Rastafari in Africa

Ashama, the Negus of Axum

The “Ornament of the World”—Islamic Spain

Somalia’s Maritime History—Pirates or Survivors?

Afterword

So Much More than a Melting Pot

Appendix: Rastafari Historical Time Line

Endnotes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About Bobby Sullivan

About Akashic Books