Honoring Our Original Ancestors: A Royal Ethiopic Salute to "The Gong"/The Howellites - The First Rastafari Announcer/Rastafari Community by Ras E.S.P. McPherson

This is a paperback book that details the origins of Rastafari culture.

Key Details:

• Cover Design: The front cover features a yellow-to-orange gradient background. It displays three small portraits at the top (including Emperor Haile Selassie I) and a larger central portrait of a man, likely Leonard Howell ("The Gong"), set within a black circle. The back cover continues the gradient and features three logos, including one for "The Ethiopian National Front (E.N.F.)".

• Author: Ras E.S.P. McPherson. The synopsis on the back is dated July 2008 by the author.

• Content/Synopsis: The back cover describes the book as a "historic literary source" that tells the story of the beginnings of Rastafari culture in Jamaica. It discusses the need for a "Pan-African historiography" and explores the transatlantic link of the "Bakongo Culture" to Jamaica via "Kumina/Cumina," which served as the cosmological base for the Howellites, identified as the first Rastafari community. The author advocates for the inclusion of "Rastaology: A Cultural Science" in educational curricula in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the USA.

• Affiliation: The back cover notes this work is part of "An ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL FRONT EDUCATION & RESEARCH, ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION" and the "Ethio-Rastaology Educational Program/'ORDER OF THE PRECEPTS'".

• Publishers: Published by ENF Publishers, Productions, & Distributors International, located in Bronx, New York.

• Copyright: February 2008.