Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia

Giulia Bonacci is a historian of Africa and its Diasporas. She is a researcher at the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in France. Her research on the Back to Africa movement, the social history of Pan Africanism and the Rastafari movement has taken her to many sites around the Black Atlantic. In addition to using the classical materials of history (archives, prints, maps and photographs), she has undertaken extensive collection of oral histories, in French, English, and Amharic. She has edited and coordinated books and special issues of periodicals. In addition, she has published many scholarly papers, as well as worked in cultural and musical journalism.Foreword by Professor Elikia M’Bokolo, Research Director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France), and Professor of History at the Université de Kinshasa (DRC).

Gold winner in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards.“The strength of this text is its multifaceted focus on the political, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions of Ethiopianism and pan-Africanism. The author includes detailed reference to one of the striking outcomes, the establishment of a pan-Africanist home at Shashemene, 250 miles from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Bonacci (Institute of Research for Development, France) also provides valuable information on the wide range of Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Caribbean, and African American returnees to Africa before the 20th century … This text benefited from archival resources and interviews in Jamaica, the UK, the US, Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ethiopia, and the remarkable translation expertise of Antoinette Tidjani Alou of the University of Abdou Moumouni, Niger.” - CHOICE connect