Bobo Ashanti

The Bobo Ashanti (also Bobo Shanti ) are a part of ( self-designation House or Mansion) of the Rastafari movement.

The Bobo Ashanti movement was founded in 1958 by Prince Emmanuel Charles Edwards, who by his followers as a black Christ (black Christ) is worshiped. The name Bobo Ashanti is composed of Bobo, which means black, Ashanti goes back to the Kingdom of Ashanti, which has existed in West Africa at the beginning of the slave trade, or to the living there people, the Ashanti people, as their descendants they see themselves.

Prince Emmanuel be settled " in Flesh Prince Emmanuel Charles Edwards, without Mother or Father, a Priest of Melchezideck for I ever, the Black Christ" as title. Within the Bobo Ashanti own concept of the Holy Trinity (Holy Trinity ) Prince Emmanuel is regarded as high priest (High Priest ), Marcus Garvey as a prophet and Haile Selassie is revered as a king and God.

The center of the Bobo Shanti movement is a commune in Bull Bay, Jamaica. The movement is spread mainly in the Caribbean and Africa, trailers can be found mainly in Jamaica, the Bahamas and Trinidad but also in Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The followers strive to live their lives according to the laws of Moses and the Old Testament, they keep the Sabbath shall be governed by its own rules for the diet and also limits outwardly very different from other Rastas from, because their religious rules also affect the way they dress. For example, they wear in public the typical, tightly wound turbans to cover their dreads, women should keep their arms and legs covered.

The best-known among the public Bobo Ashanti representatives are mainly reggae and dancehall musicians such as Anthony B., Capleton Sizzla, Lutan Fyah and Junior Reid.