“Do you think of yourself more as an African than a Jamaican?” Bob Marley on Africa — in his own words: “Yeah. Because one of the main thing is that we are Rasta. From you accept Rasta, you become an Ethiopian, which is Africa.”
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In context, he was explaining that Rastafari identifies with Africa spiritually and historically — so to him, being Rasta connects him to Africa, and thus to a broader identity beyond just being Jamaican.
Source: Bob Marley on Like It Is with Gil Noble (1980)
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