Rastafari

The Rastafari faith is rooted in the Caribbean island in the 1930s.

Forget what you think you know about the Rastafari faith.

Now a poet living in the United States, Sinclair was once taught to reject all of “Babylon,” the vestiges of empire that Rastafari like her father believed kept Jamaica from its rightful glory.

Safiya Sinclair was raised to be Rastafari; instead, she became a poet.

She rebooted the project by interviewing her father, striving to understand his interest in Rastafari, working to untangle his personal motivations and how she came to inherit so much of his sensibility.