The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during the West African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.
When Stella Payne a forty-two-year-old African-American divorced mother of one takes a vacation to Jamaica, she has the time of her life and meets the man of her dreams -- one problem, he is half her age.
Illustrations and text written in both English and Mandarin tell the story of Mimi and all the things she sees that remind her of her grandmother's Saturday soup.
Illustrations and text written in both English and Swahili tell the story of Mimi and all the things she sees that remind her of her grandmother's Saturday soup.
A novel that tells the stories of two Jamaican women: Ida, a romantic who dreams of a life beyond her small town, and May, Ida's daughter fathered by actor Errol Flynn.
When Stella Payne a forty-two-year-old African-American divorced mother of one takes a vacation to Jamaica, she has the time of her life and meets the man of her dreams--one problem, he is half her age.
