The Sunday Mail
When a black person’s hair is allowed to grow unhindered and unkempt, they end up having ‘dreadlocks’.Colloquially speaking, any person with dreadlocks is a rastafarian. The much knotted strands of one’s own natural hair is referred to as rasta. By this definition alone, every single African is rasta.
Ibo Foroma
It is important to note that this glorious potential energy is being intentionally destroyed. Children are being stigmatised, even by their own parents, for growing dreadlocks.
Obtaining a haircut is a compulsory statute and unwritten command in today’s society. Knowingly and unknowingly, Africans are breaking this bond that could tie us all together.
How good and pleasant it would be if every African’s head was proudly endowed by self styled natural dreadlocks. We would all have one God intended natural identity.
A lot of people have opened up to me that they would love to wear dreadlocks but family and communal constraints dictate that they cut their hair. Indeed, the hairstyle is ostracised. Getting a job while wearing dreadlocks is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
In Rastafari, like everything else, growing dreadlocks is not compulsory. Due to freedom of choice and other personal reasons, individuals can grow dreadlocks or not, yet they will still remain rastafarians.
Really and truly, everything rastafarian is scary. The Lion and Lioness symbolism, the gospel of fire, Emperor Haile Selassie I himself and everything else. The Holy name Tafari actually means he who is feared or respected. It is respect more out of fear than respect as a result of other factors. It also means “the creator”.
Dreadlocks do not make it any better. They represent the lion, alpha-apex predator attributes humbly residing inside mankind. The sphinx idea, with mankind as the most dominant creature on the planet, as steward and not pillager as most happen to misinterpret.
It would be ridiculous if leaders in the name of the Conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah had bold and shaved heads. Jesus Christ, now returned in this armageddon time as King of Kings and Lord of Lords in the root of King David and King Solomon’s dynasty, was a dreadlocked Nazirite himself.
Jeshua the anointed was black and had dreadlocks, standard Nazirite behaviour. Imagine a black lamb without sheep’s wool, as the ‘worst’ would have us fooled. Original Christians wore dreadlocks according to Leviticus 21:5 and Numbers 6:5-6. However moderners are applying short-cuts, or is it hair-cuts.
Ethiopia is stretching forth her arms unto Jah Rastafari, do not be left behind or drag progress, love and unity behind. Accept your God given natural self, take up the cross and join the true Nazirites. Do not just read about it in the Bible, shame the commercial world of plastic cosmetics and wear your natural look.
Women are buying other people’s hair, this is the root of all evil. By removing your natural hair and constructing those sin-thetics on your temple is blasphemy. Do not do it again, now you know. Not only do you lose money, you lose your spiritual identity as well.
After Samson was excavated of his powers by allowing scissors and comb on his head, you would expect hair salons and barbershops to run out of business. But no, they are thriving.
Imagine a pack of dogs running around without their tails. Think before you act Rastafari, Babylon is out there, dread and terrible. Wearing your natural hair natural brings about balance to the body, mind and soul.
