Could You Be Loved: Rastafari-Reggae Bob Marley: Africa Scattered for Rhythm of Spirit of Oneness for the World

PHILOSOPHY RELIGION POLITICS & CULTURE AFRICAN MUSIC FUNCTIONCOULD YOU BE LOVED is of all Humankind acknowledging shared origin for Progress with Peace. . . insightful . . incisive and instructive . . a beautiful poetic move . . brilliant . . author poet philosopher Tekla Mekfet relates Bob Marleys poetics to African philosophy the Bible and the problems of Babylon as we encounter them in Jamaica and the world. . . helps to resolve the tension between the individual and the community in Rasta poetics . . Historical memory . . clues to liberation in the present. Out of history and prophecy . . philosophy in Rastafari offers unaccustomed wide practical application. (Dr. Noel Erskine Professor of Theology & Ethics Emory University USA). . . deep understanding of world politics . . knowledge of the worlds literary works whether fiction or treatise . . wide knowledge of music of all genres . . erudite . . encyclopedic . . for every and anyone. (Dr. Erna Brodber sociologist-historian-novelist University of the West Indies). In his own thoroughly original way Tekla Mekfet evokes the largesse of spirit and innovative rhetorical performances of Walt Whitman . . Whitman opened up the space of the line in American verse; he had an agile poetic persona; he was chronicler seer prophet. In our time Ras Mekfet is accomplishing much the same through his vision and voice. (Michael Kuelker Professor of English St. Charles Community College Rastafari-Reggae researcher DJ Missouri). Structure is as vocabulary item social commentary music of meaning Often life is not nice neat sentences. The index invites piece-mealing focus on such as The Word Logic RHYTHM Household-Community Reality Freedom Whiteness or Oneness.Varied subjects are explored as symbiotic - as could be related to Spinozas All is One and The One is Divine to Selassie is The Chapel to Hegels God dwelling within Humankind & permanently pervading the universe - related to shared African principles of an all-manifesting all-embracing NTU or JAH of Rastrafari. Of Natures Logic & Kants Categorical Imperative for universal oneness. Concept Babylon de-constructed throughout as is Zion. Of Concrete Jungle The City Marketed God Moral Relativity life-long insecurity. . . the heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world / Is lightened. Mekfet invites you to be free of being psychologically blind. For YOU are living of some measure & mix of philosophy . . that you may be living unperceived. to be recognized for sense of options for direction. .- Mother Africas Philosophy Rastafari The Bible & cross-refs philosophy of West & East- Philosophy in Reggae Jazz Dancehall Music: Atavistic Appeal African Rhythms Worldwide- Culture of Politics Mis-Education Violence & Masculinity in Jamaica/Carry-beyond- A Rastafari Journey Jamaica & Social Prejudice- Animism & Literary Imagery. Multi-cultural imagery Christ/Re-patria-tion/Ancestor Worship- Israel & Jerusalem not as geographical entities but as universal concepts for social organization related to Rhythm of Ecology & Bio-diversity the Cosmos as a single organism & Bio-mimicry - all antithesis of concept of BabylonPublishers website: http: //sbprabooks.com/TeklaMekfet