Derek Bishton — Rastafari in the Promised Land 1981

The writers description of the project: In late 1980 I managed to persuade the picture editor of the Sunday Times Magazine to advance me enough to buy an airline ticket and a bag of film and, with the help of the Jamaican Chargé D’affaires in Addis, I arranged to spend a month living with the Rastafari community who had settled on the Emperor’s land grant. Haile Selassie had been deposed in 1974 and Ethiopia was then governed by a Marxist dictatorship known as the Dergue, but the pioneer settlers had managed to keep hold of some of the land they had been granted by the Emperor.