Rastafari from Jamaica to Ethiopia - The amazing Desmond Martin Story

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  • Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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    This an educational video on Rastafari that is 1 hour and 36 minutes long.
    While growing up in Jamaica I learned and benefitted a lot from the self-empowering teachings of Rastafari. I had also often heard Rastas express a burning desire to “return” to Africa, in particular, Ethiopia. I later learned that many Rastas had indeed realized their repatriation goal and were living in Shashemene, Ethiopia. My studies of Rastafari and my appreciation of Rasta empowering principles resulted in a compelling need (that I still do not yet fully understand why) to visit Shashemene to obtain insight into the philosophy and life of Ethiopia’s repatriated Rastas. In late 2015 I fulfilled my dream and visited Ethiopia. It was an amazing and enlightening experience!
    On my arrival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I met a gentleman who repatriated from Jamaica 40 years before - Desmond Martin. I was immediately struck and impressed with Desmond's personality that I immediately asked him for an interview right there in my hotel room at Addis Ababa. He obliged. This video is his story ... in his words.
    The video was in nine parts that I combined into this one video for a continuous flow. The result is a 1 hour and 36 minutes long video … so plan accordingly to watch it when you so choose. It is not a perfect production of videography, but it does present Desmond’s remarkable and entertaining account of his journey in Rastafari. Watch, listen and learn.
    Bless up.....

Комментарии • 70

  • @trudie34
    @trudie34 2 года назад +14

    Wow, shashamane has changed from when I lived there with my dad. Just seeing this and I can remember my father telling me about exactly what is happening now back then when I went to Ethiopia to live with him in the 80's , I was young and never understood what he was talking about but he planted that seed and Now I see as Babylon is falling down people are trying to repartriate to Africa. My father did what he had to do to prepare for the return of the people and I am so proud of him that he made a sacrifice and did what the most high put in him to do and his hard work and sacrifice was done so that my brother and I and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren have a home to go to when the west fall. Love you daddy and thank you 🙏

    • @Ragashanti100
      @Ragashanti100  2 года назад +5

      This is powerful....and will only be better understood and more appreciated in the future.

  • @paulwhite3024
    @paulwhite3024 Год назад +2

    I think you the interviewer is quite a patient and focus person. You did an excellent job in the struggle to keep the interview on track so that we the viewers can make some sense out of it .

  • @nicolemaddix4291
    @nicolemaddix4291 Год назад +2

    Very interesting documentary, Ragashanti. Makes me want to visit Ethiopia 😎🏁

  • @ryanair5192
    @ryanair5192 2 года назад +6

    Blessed love lord Desmond, a pillar in King’s House!!!

  • @abrahamwolde9036
    @abrahamwolde9036 2 года назад +4

    Welcome to origin of the human kind Ethiopia. A home of ethio-Jamaica
    Love rasta
    Love Ethiopia
    Love jamaica

  • @kaydiankeys1598
    @kaydiankeys1598 2 года назад +5

    I have learnt so much from this interview...very informative

  • @cee2722
    @cee2722 2 года назад +2

    This is a well documented documentary of our dearly beloved brethren and homeland. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this from start to finish. It brings back memories of my time spent when I was there in 2011. Mr. Stewart, the Rastafarian community thank you 👏🏿🙌🏿🙏🏿❤💛💚💯

    • @TamFamTeeVee
      @TamFamTeeVee 2 года назад +1

      Desmond had an immediately profound impact on me. His vision, charisma, genuineness, and his unwavering focus on the repatriation exercise are indelibly imprinted in my consciousness. His, and his colleagues', commitment to the repatriation initiative has yielded and will continue to yield various successes in the future. I wholeheartedly wish them all the best.
      Respek and blessings.

  • @julietmartin-pinnock6222
    @julietmartin-pinnock6222 3 года назад +5

    Happy to hear from and about you my dear cousin -- though we haven't seen each other in eons....you are in our hearts and minds...stay healthy and blessed...hope to see you the next time you come to the US....thanks for the legacy your are handing to the next generation ...one love...God's love..

  • @samsonaddis229
    @samsonaddis229 Год назад

    🙏🏾💚💛❤️Big respect for rastafreian .egzabehair yemesegen ethiopia is your orginal home land. We love you all realy rasta jamaicas .you are all Always welcome to ethiopia 💚💛❤️🙏🏾

  • @k_c2731
    @k_c2731 3 года назад +3

    Very interesting interview i enjoyed it and learned so much.
    Thanks for sharing 🙏

  • @haraldkoehler3164
    @haraldkoehler3164 2 года назад

    Vor ca 40 Jahren war ich Gast bei Desmond. Lieber Desmond ich habe Dich und Shasammane immer noch in meinem Herzen, es war eine der besten Zeiten in meinem Leben. Ich freue mich das es Dir gut geht und wünsche dir das es so bleibt. Liebe Grüße

  • @philliplyn2692
    @philliplyn2692 2 года назад

    Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @realrasta7178
    @realrasta7178 3 года назад +3

    Wonderfull

  • @claudialewis9868
    @claudialewis9868 2 года назад +1

    Informative and entertaining. Thank you for sharing.

  • @puremystics3168
    @puremystics3168 2 года назад

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH.....MI BROTHERS.,.... THANK YOU FOR SUCH WORKS....MAY JAH GUIDE AND PROTECT THE I DEM....

  • @dawitshashemene6655
    @dawitshashemene6655 2 года назад +1

    nough love and respect bro Dessi and wishing you good health and strength. David Marshall shashemene, Ethiopia

  • @paulinefinikin8824
    @paulinefinikin8824 3 года назад +1

    Me a die hard Ragga fan , me see that interview some long time ago 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @connoisseurification
    @connoisseurification Год назад +2

    After 40 yrs in Ethiopia and having kids there yet no citizenship is appalling and rid a human for his love for his nation. Someone in the Ethiopian parliament circuit should highlight this and get this man his human and constitutional rights.

    • @alphonsodias9392
      @alphonsodias9392 7 месяцев назад

      It can't be your paradise .when you are not fully excepted its like the same way European will treat you he better off in Jamaica if people catch the inner

  • @bisratmisgna1329
    @bisratmisgna1329 2 года назад +2

    hello this is king solo from highway .high Desi how you all are doing how about Mebrat..from the interview do you mention how a farmer broken 100 meter sprint.oh man i missed you guys .specially danny .hope i will see you some days.jah ras Tefera.

  • @Gmail_com631
    @Gmail_com631 2 года назад

    You have to go back to visit again shashemene

  • @collinblood5208
    @collinblood5208 3 года назад +1

    Post it 2021, watching now

  • @mrcoolmusic11
    @mrcoolmusic11 2 года назад +1

    Ragga SHANTI , I met brother Desmond in November 2018 when i visited Ethiopia for the first time and he was telling me the same thing i hear he saying to you that Jesus is Higher them H.I.M. So i had to let he know that no one can not be higher dan Girmawi wish mean first man. Qe'damawi wish mean first King. the European did not say in the beginning the word was with H.IM Instead they use god wish is dog backward because if they use the word H.I.M The world would realized who His Majesty is, so i was the one that let brother Desmond and the rest of the Rastafarians know this fact so if you should ever talk Desmond again am sure he wouldn't talk that way again
    Haile Selassie the first. is Power of the holy Trinity wish is one in three and three in one, wish means Father, Son, and holy Spirit, so H.I.M IS the heights the Almighty with no apologies.

  • @bobizes5058
    @bobizes5058 2 года назад +1

    *RASTAFARI Kedusan Girmawi Kedamaw'e Haile Selassie I JAH Almighty First Negusa Negas Jon Hoy HalelluYah Sehumi Igziabeher...Besem-May Ab Wold Menfes Qeddus...Now Anbessa Makkadesh ZE Imnegede Yehuda...Extol H.I.M that rideth upon the heavens by His name JAH & Rejoice before H.I.M...For the Lord Most High is terrible...He is a great King over all the earth...Save Lord let the King hear us when we call...Salaamta...I.N.R.I...Abba Keddus Tekur Amlak...Ameyn & Ameyn...*

    • @booblam6919
      @booblam6919 4 месяца назад

      Greetings.....are you knowledgeable about the 13 months with 28 days each?.

  • @Politics_870
    @Politics_870 2 года назад

    my dad on youtube much love

  • @jimmyandtheresurrection7247
    @jimmyandtheresurrection7247 2 года назад

    Philistia and tyre with Ethiopia,this man was born there. Psalm 87. That should answer the question why we know God is there in the flesh.

  • @vinimakito7553
    @vinimakito7553 Год назад

    Sure He S there

  • @JUDGEMENT1973
    @JUDGEMENT1973 Год назад

    I just visited its sad whats happening now

  • @chief-buckbynature5942
    @chief-buckbynature5942 2 года назад

    I'm planning to relocate having a good motels

  • @alphonsodias9392
    @alphonsodias9392 7 месяцев назад

    Why would i go to a place and after 40years cant become molding in the country since he is saying originally slavery was taking out of Ethiopia to Jamaica .what we know aint true .but all respect to the elder .who got caught on believe system .but if he is happy from within thats what matter l

  • @hennessycool
    @hennessycool Год назад

    Interesting interview with Desmond Martin. A lot of what he is saying makes no practical sense from then until now....Raga yu fraid fi tell Desmond on camera dat yu nuh believe

  • @StifeAnnos-ww1nq
    @StifeAnnos-ww1nq 8 месяцев назад

    Oromo tribe claimed the Shashemene and Ormo's themselves they stall the land on 18th century, Addis Ababa on 13th century from other minorities like the Gurages , but Gurages love and respect the Rastafarians so much. Guys get a licensed gun for self-defense because now you are Ethiopian that means you have the right to defend yourselves. This is Oroms pure envy and we deeply sadden by what happened to the gentleman.

  • @YebhackyBaviscky-gk9db
    @YebhackyBaviscky-gk9db 2 месяца назад

    Ethiopia for TEABETH china
    &
    Jamaica for ALL Caribbean ARCHIpelgo & BELIZE and PANAMA
    HEART BEAT accent CHANTS
    FROM neabinghy TO reagea FOR
    HERBS & FRUITS working @¢¥∆
    HAVE @ HUMAN being FUN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂

  • @leroyruddock814
    @leroyruddock814 3 года назад +1

    Ragga tell Kingsley him no believe in jesus an him not even realise

  • @iam_itallist1
    @iam_itallist1 2 года назад

    Higher Heights

  • @JerenesEats
    @JerenesEats 3 года назад

    #TAMFAM 😁

  • @contemporaryspectrumoperat9080
    @contemporaryspectrumoperat9080 2 года назад

    too much of introductory talk

  • @selemon1184
    @selemon1184 2 года назад

    1:09:00 its that a yt rasta.. smh

  • @judydavy1161
    @judydavy1161 2 года назад

    Just seeing this interview. I gave you the red card😀at least you honest. Anyway we are heartical Bredrin.

    • @Ragashanti100
      @Ragashanti100  2 года назад

      Hello. Do you know Desmond personally?

    • @judydavy1161
      @judydavy1161 2 года назад +1

      @@Ragashanti100 yes I do I am his ex-wife Judy 😀

    • @judydavy1161
      @judydavy1161 2 года назад +1

      Anyway we are good no animosity we have Kids, Grandkids and Great Grandkids together.💕

    • @kemeelebarker7835
      @kemeelebarker7835 2 года назад

      Lol good to see this interview, big up uncle Dessi. We need to visit you guys.

  • @rohaaniidaalii7181
    @rohaaniidaalii7181 2 года назад

    He wants to be Ethiopian but he doesn't want his children to fight for ethiopia in times of war.?....foolishness. He doesn't deserve ethiopian citizenship for that traitorous remark.

    • @XalaalSomalis
      @XalaalSomalis 2 года назад

      In the ’80s, young adults were being drafted to fight in essentially a civil war. Those national drafts didn’t follow any logic. Even the locals who normally would fight for the country were unhappy, often hiding their children from being drafted. It was so traumatic for parents to lose children not old enough to fight to national draft. And it was worse for the children. I believe he was referring to that experience and not necessarily now.
      I found him to represent Ethiopia in a way that very few would represent it. I enjoyed it!

    • @selemon1184
      @selemon1184 2 года назад +1

      U r a fool....hes right and thers no ethiopian thats want to fight this politician wars.
      We ethiopian only fight on just wars like the time of the italian or when the muslims back then.
      Evrey ethiopian agree wit him.
      🤫

    • @joannag6992
      @joannag6992 9 месяцев назад

      No parent wants their kids too fight

  • @Nkosi766
    @Nkosi766 3 года назад +4

    He needs to read the Bible again, and surely he can do more than one chapter per day. The poor man is confused

    • @jimmyandtheresurrection7247
      @jimmyandtheresurrection7247 2 года назад +1

      Yamakosi where in the bible it says God comming from sky?

    • @Nkosi766
      @Nkosi766 2 года назад

      @@jimmyandtheresurrection7247 , where does that question comes from?
      What’s the relevance?

    • @Nkosi766
      @Nkosi766 2 года назад

      @@jimmyandtheresurrection7247 , not sure if it says so but people say so , I know son of man was coming on a cloud, it didn’t say son of god, there’s definitely a city coming from the sky ? Ppl say a lot what the Bible don’t ssy

    • @rohaaniidaalii7181
      @rohaaniidaalii7181 2 года назад +1

      The blind leading the blind....you are both lost

    • @XalaalSomalis
      @XalaalSomalis 2 года назад +2

      He can simply choose to read one chapter a day. That doesn’t make anyone “confused.” He didn’t claim only one chapter can be read and was only speaking for himself.

  • @donyutejamaica631
    @donyutejamaica631 2 года назад

    Relocating from Jamaica to Ethiopia is like jumping from frying pan into the fire.
    Selassie, the supposed Messiah persecuted and starved his own people to death, then turned around and grant free land to weed smoking long hair foreigners. I’m confused

  • @abdirazakahmed1970
    @abdirazakahmed1970 2 года назад

    Shashamane Belong to oramo Not Bantus Who were Slave

    • @jccjjccj3305
      @jccjjccj3305 Год назад

      Go and pray to the black stone in Mecca. I hope you get a chance to kiss and touch it so it can forgive you for your sins

    • @jccjjccj3305
      @jccjjccj3305 Год назад

      West Africans are not Bantu, your Muslim brothers in Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Tanzania are Bantu.

    • @jccjjccj3305
      @jccjjccj3305 Год назад

      Prophet luqman and prophet musa were Bantus