E2. Arabs Have Oil, Americans Have Timber, Our Wealth Is Ganja

Touching down in Kingston, Jamaica, on a warm 1972 night, the twenty-something-year-old Alan encounters a world foreign to him. Making his way to Brother Louv’s Rasta Camp, Alan is met with the revelation that his arrival was expected. Believing this is a great adventure, Alan decides to stay and learn more about this fledgling movement - the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church. Despite sickness, police raids and even deportation, he finds himself enthralled. The longer he stays, the more his thinking changes. Brother Niah Keith - the Jamaican leader of the Church - explains that their mission, inspired by the prophecies of Marcus Garvey, is to build a Black Kingdom. But how are these impoverished Rastas supposed to build such a kingdom? Well, see the title.

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Credits

• Production & post-production: Alan, Benji Anstey, Taylan Bulbul
• Theme Songs: Benji Anstey (guitar), Dan Boshoff (guitar), Dawud Petersen (bass), Nkanyezi Ngwenya (percussion), Conor Hugo (sound engineer), Joshua Riley (mixing and mastering)
• Visuals and website: Taylan Bulbul
• Reggae song: Lawd a Massi by Lou Ricard
• Font (ChemyRetro) by Jay Batch
• Photo in the cover art by Paul Von Baich - The old Kingston Road, Oxford University Press 1980

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