Rogers,Robert Athlyi (Author) and Afro Athlican Constructive Church (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Northhampton: White Crane Pub
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Originally published 1924-1928., 87 p., A proto-Rastafari text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers (d. 1931), for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the Caribbean founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly. The Church saw Ethiopians (in the Biblical sense of Black Africans) as the chosen people of God, and proclaimed Marcus Garvey, the prominent Black Nationalist, an apostle. The church preached self-reliance and self-determination for Africans.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
239 p., Collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and American literature.