Here is a reasoning I found from Mutabaruka
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So we go to Bob Marley now, because we going pick up from where, Mr. Martin tek
off, yu know, di idea of Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey is the forerunner of
everything whey you see a gwaan right yasso now in terms of Pan Africanism, in
terms of even how Rastafari shape the perspective because Ras Tafari who was Haile
Selassie before he was the Emperor of Ethiopia, had links with Marcus Garvey. As we
hear Tony Martin sey that Haile Selassie, I mean as Ras Tafari he was like an
emissary all over. He was doing work in England, and he was widely traveled doing
the work of the Empress in that time an Empress named Zawditu. So Ras Tafari was
really at work before he was the Emperor of Ethiopia that is why the movement,
Rastafari rather than Judaism. I is a Rastafarian rather than a Haile Selassian.
Because Rastafari the movement, developed not from 1930 when Haile Sellassie was
crowned, but from the magus, the man Ras Tafari. So it started to shape itself in the
person of Ras Tafari and then now validated itself through the crowning of Haile
Sellassie, of Ras Tafari into Haile Sellassie. So we have to understand that there is a
group of people before 1930 who was recognizing the magus before he became King
of Kings, he was the King. There is a group of people that was recognizing him as
Ras Tafari, and then it continued over into him being Haile Sellassie. But it didn’t
change the name, it didn’t change the name when he was Haile Sellassie.
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