Mutaburaka Speaks On The Many Groups And Cultures Who Wore Dreadlocks Before Rastafari

In this reasoning Rastafari dub poet, musician, actor, educator, and radio host Mutabaruka speaks about the numerous groups and cultures who have worn dreadlocks prior to the Rastafari movement.
Mutabaruka says, "In the Aboriginal group in Australia, they have locks, they have locks. Now, there are two stories. In Numbers 6, it tell you that no razor should come up on your head neither shall you eat anything from the vine until the days of your separation. A lot of people say that’s where Rastaman got their idea of locks from. A next version is that during the Mau Mau Uprising --- a lot of you might not know about the Mau Maus, but you can check that out too. Jomo Kenyatta was known as the Burning Spear; that’s where Winston Rodney got his name from, the former president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. He led an uprising against the British known as the Mau Mau and a lot of them wore locks and Rastaman seeing these people fighting white supremacy and colonialism, adapted that image."
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[@tubethis777]

Cool vids. Who is the band/artist playing at the end?

[@kylerodewald4831]

That was cool even animals got dreads

[@MrFromthefuture]

we deh ya in india and i tell you rasta, sadhus are there since 3000 years ! we promote rasta music in india so we give thanks and praises everytime ! also check the siddis tribe in india, them came long back from ethiopia

[@markspringer716]

Leonard Howell called himself Gong Guru and smoked Kali herb ... Kali in reference to the goddess Kali in Hindu ...that is the homage and adaptation in the foundation of Rasta on that level .....locks and weed .....the Mau Mau rebellion can be also credited however their appearances was never deliberate ....it was an adaptation to Bush life without scissors combs and mirrors .

[@iipriorii]

Think closer to 5000 years bother

[@iipriorii]

Brother

[@azizasuzan9886]

Cutting Edge is best show on Jamaican radio. Give thanks to Mutabaruka.Better than politicians in Jamaica

[@everythingent1118]

At 68, mutaburaka still looks young and energetic. Great message

[@ashanti_the_spiritual_warr2209]

Eat clean,think clean= look clean. Ital is vital! 👁

[@traum640]

Muta helped me understand so much. I am a different person since I first heard Cutting Edge.

[@Nkosi766]

Seek truth seeker of truth. Continue always seeking

[@bfreemusic5545]

Mutabaruka = One who is always victorious❤💛💚

[@jacquelinewelch7635]

🇯🇲The great teacher: Elder Mutabaruka🦁🎤❤🇯🇲

[@jasonward6398]

The Rasta got the ganja the dreadlocks and vegetarian diet all from the Sahdus who came to Jamaica as indentured servants

[@farithedeityoriginal9967]

Inna Kenya Mau Mau Field Marshal Dedan kimathi Mau Mau meaning uma uma -get Out get out More love king Muta We love your works here inna Kenya ✋🏿✡️ Rastafari welcome and bless

[@starchebet7594]

Mau Mau- Mzungu Aende Ulaya, Mwafrika Apate Uhuru 🤗

[@kwekuoboasi9352]

Gr8 video and inspiring knowledge and history. I give thanx about speaking about and on The Baye Fall. The Baye Fall Mystics of Senegal 🇸🇳 but I never knew Cheikh Amadou Bamba wore locs(Ndiange) I truly understand that it was Cheikh Ibra Fall that wore Locs. Nyahbinghi people are Sufi The Chanting

[@3sotericCompassionist1976]

All praises to the MOST HIGH Jah Rastafari Mahadeva Shambo! ALAKH NIRANJAN BOM BHOLENATH!

[@blackpearllucky279]

"Mutabaruka" is a very common name in my country RWANDA, It means "the one who always comes out victorious". Also traditionally Rwandan children used to have dreadlocks "Ibisage" but they would change it to another hairstyle called "Amasunzu" as adults. They would only shave their heads when a close family member had died.

[@MrEiht]

Thanks for sharing that knowledge!

[@antonykariuki3199]

In the Kikuyu community from Kenya it means endless something continues endlessly.

[@YourInnerG]

Well unfortunately his name is not accurate, as this gay is a pagan wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[@MrEiht]

@@YourInnerG why would you bring up your father and his shameful name?

[@blackpearllucky279]

@@YourInnerG well this was my first to come accross him and I just found it quite interesting how his name is very common in my country.

[@JJ1969-z3p]

India and rastafari have the strongest connection.......

[@troymusic5304]

Muta is a true Rasta man!

[@theeducationmessiah]

Soooo so true. I had the chance to visit Uganda and took a very similar picture as the Queen Nyabinghi herself... I didn't know the connection until I returned home and I'm a person who attends our Brooklyn one. A sense of peace and deeper spiritual connection is the only way to describe. Blessings to all who have eyes to see the divinity in this time. ❤🖤💚

[@kadir6822]

Knowledge is powerful 🇬🇲

[@dk2428]

Learned a lot. 🙏🏾

[@unmuchoproblem0]

very insightful

[@thetruthchannel7073]

Muta is a true inter-outernatinal treasure to humanty nuff love and blessings...

[@BlackRootsUNLIMITED]

Thank you so much Elder, for talking about Nyabingi. Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤❤️

[@omarsadiqYouTube]

Love listening to muta

[@OLDTIMEANOINTEDGOSPELMUSIC]

I did 2 research documents in College on Rastafarianism in the 80’s but it was hard back then to find references. It was a white American sociology professor who knew I did the first one that requested that I did the second one. She wanted me to do interviews and newspaper clippings but the Rastas I interviewed didn’t give me anything sensible like what you just did. It was just mud. The newspaper articles I found were one liner trash. It’s hard to interview a Rasta because they get caught up with minor stuff like isms. So I learned to say Rastafari instead of Rastafarianism. Most didn’t have post secondary education or even high school education. Later I learned about the Tafari tribe from Ethiopia who had long dreadlocks dating back hundreds of years

[@neilhanley3468]

Many thanks for this knowledge 🙏 now I must do my research

[@JayToons]

Some of the Amazigh tribes in North Africa also had dreadlocks in the antique times. Same as Egyptians.

[@souleymanediame4950]

Cheikh ahmadou bamba is not a prophet but a important regilious man,a man of God,who had a lot of knowlwdge about islam, love from Senegal Muta ❤️🇸🇳

[@brandonsingh3395]

Gratitude 🙏🏾

[@dwayneteecuss4013]

Yeah man, the Great Rasta Icon King Mutabaruka:indeed, how Iman see it, as a Rasta, is that all of the people Muta mentioned in the above, equally, are one of the same when it comes to their way of life, wearing locks and fighting against white oppression etc etc:indeed, the only folly is their involvement in the whiteman's religions which is one of the key element(s) of said whiteman's oppression they're supposedly fighting against. ... oppression. ... I think Sizzla has made it quite clear for any of the readers here to overstand in his "own" song No White God. ...

[@3sotericCompassionist1976]

So greatful 🙏🏽

[@omarsadiqYouTube]

Just checked out the baye fall Muslims I was ignorant to it,thank you muta,thank you I knew

[@iler859]

Learned a lot here

[@karlhenry2328]

This man is a national treasure and institution. Walking encyclopedia.. long live the true original Rasta Mutaburuka,unlike these platt up head rascals nowadays.

[@marcb6290]

The comments are heaven. Complete agreement. Muta. I love great brother.

[@babatundefall1519]

give thanks for sharing bredren. MUTA MUTA MUTA abondant living professor abondant living.

[@freddykruger5695]

Heart of love mutabaruka 🇬🇩

[@moeseck7792]

Very insightful...

[@86keno]

Give thanks 🖤

[@jannefermumangi3593]

Yes big up from Kenya 🇰🇪 may mau

[@sheriffj.kamara5002]

Respect elder Mutabaruka, much love all the way from sierra Leone West Africa 🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

[@Beuwolf420]

Much respect🙌🙏🙇

[@justaguyinasuitxx]

this is great

[@ggabtheBlessedOne]

Bless up!

[@NextSound170]

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 Rasta listen fi what people say and correct the ting. Rasta needed from them time and until now

[@princesamuels5981]

Speak it into existence guidance.. spread the vital gems

[@pedrorootman]

give thanks

[@ifashi4]

Irie. Good to know indeed.

[@asinga_Unfolds]

much love from Uganda

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

One common thread in the wearers of locs is that they walk a Priestly or Shamanic path.

[@ChattingWithMuta]

Yes Muta you are right about the Saadhu indians. The saadhu is a religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life.

[@jogndoe5008]

The longest teacher I have in my life,!

[@User-k6u2t]

One love from India

[@ayomaakaa6978]

There is a people in Nigeria who also wore locks, there is a specific traditional name for them.......read it in a book on Traditional African Spiritual practices in the 1980's there was a photograph too

[@tldoctor2497]

Igbo?

[@ayomaakaa6978]

@@tldoctor2497 No it was not Igbo i know who they are

[@geminiqueent]

I think they’re called dadas

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

Dada

[@aboyade9]

Omo Dada

[@BigMarz1992]

Need more content like this

[@YourInnerG]

Muta is the new Farrakhan.

[@maskslavefakevirus8616]

Numbers 6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

[@tonybrown6496]

The word ganga is an Indian word.

[@mmg0705]

Rastafari live✊🏿

[@oscareybers]

The Elder speaks truth. At the same time, Rastafari people trod in the name of Ras-Tafari - HIM. This gives Rastafari locks unique meaning that differs from any cultural group in or outside of Africa. Locks is hair...the principles and meaning beneath the Vow are beyond physical. Rastafari image Glorifies HIM. His Majesty and Sons' and Daughters' commitment to the manifestation and completion of Zion in Africa is represented, symbolised and embodied in those who carry locks.

[@rafaelekon1392]

Make Muta Hero # Dat Mi Seh...This man is selfless

[@hansfrantz6658]

is long long time i sit down pon di wall an watch him a watch me....

[@cameronpinter2351]

At the end of some of this channels videos there is a regge singer singing about mountains. Anyone know the name of the song and artist? Thanks.

[@petahbee]

Autarchii kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGe4i4qahLObhM0

[@JohnDoe-dx7bu]

Also Celts

[@efrahimlevenstone5069]

Yes talk to the people man

[@jamaalcurry8990]

💚💛❤️

[@kwaamelion4789]

You also have the Kanaks in New Caledonia

[@caseypaul8473]

idk why i laughed so hard when he say he dont just have locks but he dont wear the shoes😂😂😂

[@marcuspayne5308]

🙏🙌🙏

[@user-po5fd2te3s]

Finally the Truth

[@Rootsprodigy]

Yes Muta true !!! Dreads are spiritual hair and way to seperate from society in India. Also Ganja comes from name Ganges ( Holy river in India ) Ital food is tradition in India since 3000+ years. KALI ( herb ) is a name of Indian goddes , and Jamaican hindus used to shout JAIRAMAYA for expresing victory of god ! Then you have reincarnation ( Indian concept of life after life) and many other things from Hindus...While dreadlocks where araund all continents...

[@ayomaakaa6978]

Ah also the Isangoma shaman/traditional healers of various regions in Southern Africa

[@dadaturay5634]

Yeah am from the Gambia 🇬🇲 n I know bout the baye falls from Senegal 🇸🇳 whose grow locs

[@stumpamon]

The Assiniboine or Nakota had many great leaders, including Great Road and Pigeon who wore long “rope hair” or dread locks. Many other cultures had locks as well.

[@Nkosi766]

Reality drops

[@wizardundesputed2805]

Spot on, jomo Kenyatta was not a maumau he was not a rasterman but mau mau pure rastermen they fearsly fought the British colonial rulers but Kenyatta betrayed them #much respect to mau mau led by dedan kimathi and field mashal Musa mwariama

[@stefan_chance2515]

Many cultures had locks everyones hair can lock

[@d.ahuman6323]

Mutabaruka name translate to one who is freeing people or who who has found freedom. Only few of us find our Comic name and not the one given to us when we were unconscious.

[@jamesking4110]

My uncle had dreadlocks for decades but he was not a raster man.My brother realised this when he had lunch with him one day, after tucking into some meat whitch he thought was beef only to discover when almost finished that it was choice pork, he asked uncle Wil how comes this beef tastes so much like pork, only to be answered with yes it is pork nice yeah. My brother did'nt know what to do, it was only later he found out that uncle Wil had to let his hair grow to keep good health and nothing to do with being a rasterman.RIEP to my dear uncle Wil although he was not a rasterman a more kind and loving person you would never meet.

[@roughedge4539]

😂😂😂 uncle Will was a proverbial wolf in sheep clothing No pun intended

[@Ohlevia]

Thank you for this because many people believe that locks is synonymous to Rastafari but it started with black people on a whole

[@eyobeman8522]

Chant up a nybinga burn up the serpent 🐍 🎶 🔥.

[@jaysaw2321]

Mutaburuka says he regrets walking barefoot now cos his name has been changed forever to mutavaruka 😲👣

[@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251]

Akan priests in Ghana wear locks.

[@Firestartaboerboels]

For real,I am more into yoruba culture but I need to know more about the ashante culture

[@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251]

@@Firestartaboerboels Akan priests and priestesses still wear lock in Ghana.Not all of them though.They are nice people but most people tag them bad because of the brainwashing

[@Firestartaboerboels]

@@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251 yep,the brainwashing of black ppl is all over the world,Christianity and Islam is the cause of that

[@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251]

@@Firestartaboerboels That’s true

[@abdonmanuelmartinezmartine7217]

In the Bible you also have Samuel and John the Baptist that had locks.

[@aaronmurray5952]

DEDAN KIMATHI

[@dingleberry9947]

Those in india that assume the tittle Sidis are our people. What I mean by our people is they got in India through the transatlantic slave trade.

[@sridharprasanth8833]

Sidhi ppl once ruled in the heart of India, Google Malik Ambar bro. Love from India brother!

[@SDBOGLE]

The Mayan also had dreadlocks and the famous Prester John of ancient America was a Rastafarian.

[@johnnyjohnson7642]

You don't have to be dread to be Rasta, rastalogy koramante nyabinghi cosmology spirituality livication

[@goldbluetears]

The fact that this channel deletes comments seems so petty and childish. It’s so sad I expected more, I can’t take this serious anymore

[@azizasuzan9886]

Sheikh Bambang was a powerful Suffolk mystic who was transpoted on a slave ship and when he was denied praying his obligatory Salaam he walked off the ship and prayed upon the water (this is an example of what is called in Islam "wilayet al takwini")meaning power over nature.I also knew about the Queen Nyabibinghi.The first photos I ever see as a child was in an encyclopedia called Peoples of all Nations of Indian Sadhus with long matted locks

[@ike6209]

The Sadus are the original locs people...Africa & India are the 2 oldest civilizations on earth !

[@kingsleytuccerthe3rd90]

Any peoples who didnt comb there hair would have had dread locks. Interesting who chose to highlight and others he chose not too. Viking, Celtic, Highland and Germanic tribes to name a few European tribes all had locks.

[@ericpiette8614]

And also the ancient Greeks and Mediterranean peoples, Mongols and Slavic peoples, Asians, Native Americans ... One Love, Bless.

[@shattaclevewright4379]

You do realize that the Europeans still refuse to acknowledge the Moors as the source of their civilization don't you? I am sure you are also aware that our Sacred Knowledge is locked away in European museums and private collections. The European media hides our history and then demonizes us, so please forgive us for being selfish for once in focusing on our History. At some point we have to focus on ourselves or watch our youths go over to genocide. Our people are suffering from a lack of self knowledge and all the Mental Health issues and self hate that goes with it. Enough is enough, either our "friends" speak the hell up or shut up and let us do what we do. Dr John Henrik Clarke told us that "You have no friends" ...Oracle/Healer kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpSXYouMbrang80 Anthony Browder at the British Museum PT2

[@mxshogun92]

I wonder if it would have been too much to ask Muta to let his locks down for this one

[@kushitesselassie7884]

Jah

[@johnnyjohnson7642]

Hindu kushites Nubians alkebulan sechkmet pitah is the same ppl,dalits untouchables black siddhi Dravidian Muruga Hanuman Narasimha sherdai Sai baba are also worshipping in goma Zaire drc,ganges river in India's Indus valley named after Ethiopian emperor ganges

[@Firestartaboerboels]

Hindu culture comes from Egypt

[@azizasuzan9886]

I meant to write Bamba

[@littleandre4957]

Exactly, dreadlock and gunja culture came from the sadhus who worked and lived next to Jamaicans.

[@Firestartaboerboels]

Did t you hear what di man say,he said the dreadlocks idea came from the mama uprising in kenya

[@littleandre4957]

@@Firestartaboerboels I heard but it's just not True.

[@Firestartaboerboels]

@@littleandre4957 what evidence do you have to say it’s not true

[@littleandre4957]

​@@Firestartaboerboelsbecause "gunja" is a Sanskrit word, not an African word and because there's no evidence that both came from Africa/queen Niyabingi and company. It cannot be a coincidence (some things can be a coincidence but this can't be, it's the only people it could have come from in Jamaica - they literally influenced each other).

[@Firestartaboerboels]

@@littleandre4957 so where Jamaican ppl come from? And do you know it have ppl in africa living in the bush with dreadlocks? Because black ppl hair just naturally lock up,if they don’t cut it or comb it.when you hear bob marley say “batty congo” what do you think he talking about?

[@kokayiufanifu8309]

Just LOCKS!

[@hermangeerman9683]

Numbers 6:18 also says to cut and burn his hair

[@karenwarburton43]

Much respect however it's a new day. Teach your children algorithms. Mathematics is the new normal.

[@richardcopeland6859]

Big Mon ting

[@JackBlack-td5gx]

The term hair was never used in time ago locks is been before no locks hair takes the place of locks you have straight locks curly locks afro locks and locks is like any part of your body not cause you cut it and it grows back and you can't do that to other parts of your body locks or hair is a reciver of elements from the universe that why people like Indians grow long hair it was because of long hair the 14 year old lead AEITHIOPIA to victory their long hair intimidate the enemy no locks is cosmetic comes from the cosmos and those Indians from India were living as African remember India was once eastern ethiopia and they went into China to start karate and so forth there are cultures in Africa wearing locks long before any other nations and still is a tribe that wears the swastikas on their apron long before Hitler that tribe came out to fight for and with the king

[@peterkruud6748]

Most people wore locks before the iron age.

[@Firestartaboerboels]

And when would you considered to be the iron age

[@peterkruud6748]

@@Firestartaboerboels not sure on the time.before swords and so on.

[@Firestartaboerboels]

@@peterkruud6748 I ask this question cause ppl usually look at Europe Iron Age as the world Iron Age.but africa was using iron thousands of years before Europe

[@peterkruud6748]

@@Firestartaboerboels learn something new everyday.thanks for letting me know but I am not surprised because an African language was before hindi in india.Most Indians don't know..its called Bo.

[@Firestartaboerboels]

@@peterkruud6748 do you know about the tumul ppl/ Dravidians.these are ppl that migrated to India thousand of years during the Egyptian empire and they brought the Hinduism to India and the worship of the goddess hathor which is represented as the golden calf.the goddes hathor was one of the gods of the Egyptian empire and was represented by the gold calf.the same golden calf the Bible make mention of during the time of Moses.that’s why the co is held ao sacred in Hinduism

[@Deeznutz002]

The Son of the Sun told us we are all African. The idea that it started there in Africa is ludicrous.Thats like saying homosapen sapen where the first people's. We are His people! Fighting over a hair style is for a child. Dog's an cat's have locs too it's what it be.

[@matttaniwha8609]

Maori in New Zealand have locks