<p>To most people the word Rastafarian conjures up images of dreadlocks, the smoking of ganja, and Bob Marley. But Rastafari, as it's more correctly known, is a movement with a complex belief system. It has its origins in Jamaican society in the early 20th century, when black people rose up in protest at oppressive systems imposed by white rulers. But is it ... Show More
Feb 2024
L'INTÉGRALE - Bob Marley : reggae, femmes et marijuana... qui se cache derrière le prophète rasta ?
Le chanteur iconique Bob Marley est décédé il y a un peu plus de 40 ans. Après avoir vendu 77 millions d'albums, sa voix continue de résonner partout dans le monde. Il a permis à la musique reggae d'être connue partout, mais il est surtout devenu un prophète pour les Jamaïcains. ... Show More
50m 56s
Nov 2023
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker from Bahrain, published the first in-depth investigation of anti-black racism in the Arab world in 2004. This translation of the n ... Show More
40m 56s
Jun 2019
African and West Indian Christians Are Changing the UK Church
How God is working through the Windrush generation and beyond. The number of churches continues to drop in the UK. As CT reported last month, there are only 39,000 congregations left in the country, a quarter drop from 20 years ago. But despite churches increasingly closing their ... Show More
48m 47s
Feb 2024
L'ENTRETIEN - Bob Marley : "Sans Rita, il n'y aurait pas eu de Bob Marley", estime leur fils Ziggy
Le chanteur iconique Bob Marley est décédé il y a un peu plus de 40 ans. Après avoir vendu 77 millions d'albums, sa voix continue de résonner partout dans le monde. Il a permis à la musique reggae d'être connue partout, mais il est surtout devenu un prophète pour les Jamaïcains. ... Show More
13m 47s