Rastafari | iDlozi | Ancestor | Bible | Symbolism | Anthropomorphism | Theology | Christianity

Abba Ayalew Amlak - Usilo Samanzi & Haramanuba Thau Thau - BaKeHaSe High Sanusi continue their in-depth conversation about misconceptions, misunderstandings and misinterpretations of religious texts and beliefs in Africa and the African diaspora.
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[@tekenta-neter7944]

Everyday I love these two more and more

[@ruzian06]

The way he explained the concept of death is mind blowing 🖤🖤🖤

[@malebogojenifer4854]

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[@MBYSmusic]

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[@mmapontshopholo9733]

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[@evodiampooa9302]

Same

[@nturhukozilwa2833]

Me 2

[@yvonnematsenjwa]

Same here dear

[@TheGhettoAlchemist]

This can be a whole series. Hit after hit the story doesn’t end. We need more🌞🔥🤲🏾

[@nomfundoaphiwe]

Agreed, may we please have a series with just these two elders🙏🏽

[@KMatolo]

I agree with you, great inside - I can listen to this brothers the entire

[@khayalethukuphu5818]

Most definitely agree vital knowledge here

[@malebogojenifer4854]

Ya shisa nje iyoo🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@soraiaV]

Yes please 🙏🏾

[@shabaka4555]

WE MUST ORGANIZE AND UNITE IRREGARDLESS OF RELIGIONS!! WE ARE ONE AFRIKAN PEOPLE WORLDWIDE JAH-RASTAFARI THE UNITY OF AFRIKA IS A MUST !!! 🇪🇹

[@kutloanoloretta6967]

I can't wait for the "Universal truths" conversation 💃💃... I enjoyed this episode 👌🏾

[@hannahkai1882]

Student, and Master.. thank you so much for your knowledge... And thank you Unpopular Opinion for listening to your subscribers.

[@unpopularopinion_za]

We thank you for your viewership.

[@yangamthuthi7360]

Molweni /Bhotani/Dumelang/Hotep to my Queens & Kings A we spiritual journey to the truth...we feel love and light for each other,so we may rise as Unity . One Love is the Highest Frequency We All should Vibrate By and We give thanks to the Grand Master ,His Student,The Platform for bringing Enlightement to our People Ozithibileyo Yang'Inkosi

[@dingalodingalo8447]

Hotep is Ho thoba,Ku sithoba

[@megarudeboy0078]

Thanks! Thank you for the knowledge brothers. The Abrahamic belief systems have never resonated with me. I am not Rasta. Just believe in nature and universal energies. Everything is of god and is god.

[@KeithWatney-vv2cf]

You're not rasta You're hindu ,hindu believe that everything is god and god is everything and the word for that concept is called *Pantheism* you are what you eat and most certainly you are what you believe, rastas are only a few hundred thousand worldwide but hindus are. Over 1 billion so your winning over the rastas plus rastas only have one god while hindus have a infinite amount of god so your winning again 😅

[@woldejenue1991]

Greetings brothers I am of Jamaican parentage and I am now a man born in England 🇬🇧. But I identify with an African trodding a life/livity resembling the Dread Rasta. What I would ask unoo/you is I am I free to call omnipotent = potential? If I am free then I am free, have a freedominion" seek out my own God given gift which I must present to the world in particular the African world's betterment. This for I-man is what the Rastafari Protest Movements from the Jamaica. Selah peace love and joy.

[@keithwilliams2852]

The discourse engaged in by General (Gen.) Thau Thau and his student in this video is exactly the kind of thing that should be applauded and encouraged by the Rastafarian community. Even so, it is important to always remember that every journey begins with one step, and with the Rastafarian Movement being just short of a hundred years young a good dose of patience with the emerging nature and direction of the Movement is highly recommended. It is certainly the case that four men walking along the same road would tell a different story once their sojourn comes to an end. There is no denying the fact that the two brothers appearing in this series of videos are well-versed in Philosophy, Theology, African Culture, and a host of other fields. And this commenter thinks that the General has done an excellent job in answering the question raised in the early part of the video as to “WHAT CONTRIBUTION DOES THE RASTAFARIAN FAITH HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT WE ARE FACING” (sic). Accordingly, it should be the duty of every Rastafarian to ensure that in our effort to propagate the purpose, vision, and mission of the Movement, we always do our best to ensure that nothing that we may say or do would ever leave anyone with the impression that the Movement is on a suicidal track of cannibalizing itself. As Gen. Thau Thau recognizes, the genesis of the Movement could best be understood as a response to colonialism in all of its forms in the Caribbean, Africa, America, and elsewhere. From being an ostracized and marginalized “subculture”, the Movement has emerged into a fledgling institution with a developing philosophy of its own. Today, the powers-that-be have come to recognize that the Philosophy of RASTAFARI is, indeed, a force to be reckoned with. The General is correct in his insistence that no Rastafarian should be satisfied with the notion that it is sufficient for RASTAFARI to be viewed merely as a radicalized black version of Christianity; complete with the acceptance of the Bible as the “Word of God”, the imitative doctrine of the “Black Christ”, and so on. But the errors inherent in such kinds of views, as promulgated by Ras Boanerges, Vernon Carrington (“Prophet Gad”), and Prince Emmanuel who, respectively, founded the Rastafarian sub-groups of Nyabinghi, Twelve Tribes, and Bobo Ashanti, should never detract from the fact that all of those gentlemen have played a critical role in taking the Movement from its embryonic stage in the ghettoes of Trenchtown, Jamaica to its more developed stage with a following of more than 10 million adherents around the world. In brief, every social institution is initially shaped by the institution from which it has derived. And because the Jamaican pioneers of the Movement were acculturated within the Christian milieu, it should come as no surprise that their conceptualizations of any system of thought worthy of replacing their inherited beliefs would be heavily tainted by such former beliefs. The magnitude of the challenge might best be appreciated by considering that even Professor PLO Lumumba, despite his keen intellect and masterful erudition, finds it difficult and even impossible to emancipate himself from the mental shackles of Christianity. And because the followers of “Christafari” (as opposed to the adherents of RASTAFARI) do not possess the intellectual acumen of a Prof. Lumumba, it is incumbent upon those of us who have beheld a greater light to carry the baton of the Rastafarian marathon an even greater distance until the ideals espoused by His Imperial Majesty (HIM) Emperor Haile Selassie I, The Right Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, President Kwame Nkrumah, and other enlightened African leaders and visionaries which has come to be known as RASTAFARI is eventually actualized.

[@winniethuo9736]

Can I suggest another human who beyond taking sides which is the reason for so much human segmentation has spent most of his grown-up life vocalizing the seed that was in him and that, that was not corrupted by the environment, he grew up in? Born in South India and not known by many, Jiddu Krishnamurti realized that man due to a fault that is not his own over time has cultivated external growth but has done very little with what matters most; the inward man the same that can a revolution in man. Man has for example technologically kept himself alive in an incubator, only to send him to war to dismantle another to mean that the animal in man that is violence, aggressive, brutality has not anywhere over time. Time is not the solution to a human mind radical revolution which necessary to change. His suggestion is that an insight calls for an immediate mutation because all analysis brings about biasness. Rastafarianism may suffer the same destiny if time is used as the master. Check on him as he is huge on in getting us all to rejecting psychological authority. He magnifies how a human mind has not been slowed him down in building the society alongside his ills. Is the Rasta doing the same? He puts it that words and explanations are not the facts. Check on him and read his books. Freedom from the known is mind massaging. All the best. His name is Jiddu Krishnamurti.

[@KeithWatney-vv2cf]

Sellassie didn't see himself as god/ christ whom Sellassie worshipped nor did he command that he be emulated/followed but lo and behold we have people who created a lifestyle based on emulating Sellassie as a philosophy there's no central doctrine each follows his own desires

[@nthabisengnthabi9622]

I can listen to you Bagolo baka for the whole day.. Very informative and eye opening..

[@user-od4el2ti8d]

Thanks my lord if was not you I was still Inna dark life

[@StheNdlovu]

I loved this . Siyabonga makhehla e’THU’.

[@thabonkgau407]

I should have got this knowledge when I was still Rasta. This my father’s house has many mansions was so confusing. Aba has given Rastafaria an African perspective with Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Powerful stuff.

[@maaruz1979]

you were never Rasta; you can put on the clothes for a while but it is an inborn concept

[@msandi_10thousand19]

You guys are the best, just finished part one and to my surprise nayo part 2. Akwande!

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Thank you for watching. We are glad that there are people who really enjoy watching, listening and learning. We try to do this for you 💌

[@Dani-lg5yc]

This content is gold. I'm watching from Kenya and would appreciate english interpretations for the native terms used in the discussion. Bless up.

[@katkatlego6608]

This is my personal best podcast ever

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Thank you Kat, we appreciate you 🤎

[@katkatlego6608]

@@unpopularopinion_za I appreciate you more

[@jalenwakefield1]

I want to give thanks to all involved in this 🙏🏽💯

[@africanliberationstationwi2594]

My brother's this is a beautiful piece I love or both of you go deep into rastafari I wish all of them would listen to the series would love to meet both of you give thanks my brother's give thanks

[@thokozanidzobozsangweni7134]

As i eluded that am learning a lot from this lecture...🤞🙌🙌🙌i give much thanks to that...

[@archbishopcorrinesheemaame2574]

ALL PRAISE TO THE MOST HIGHEST OF THE HIGH ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF ALL IN ALL

[@lindaningcobo7254]

The articulation of how the bible is misinterpreted by people of faith is on point

[@TheOriginalYolisa]

Thaayu for this timely conversation 🧡❤️ I think many Rastas wouldn't be pleased bcs you're exposing the religious contradictions from an Indigenous analysis but there's much to appreciate from Rasta as a liberation movement ⚖️ In Ubuntu-Ma'at 💫🧿💫

[@yamkelaswelinkomo1973]

Keep on enlightening me

[@SibusisoNhlapo-mv7eo]

I can't get enough of this ...

[@thabangmasekwameng4054]

More, more, more!!!

[@KaStaylaSeo24]

❤️🙏I've Learned Alot I Can't Lie

[@blvcksumerivn]

a like before even viewing amazing channel lucky to have found this

[@humanbeing1156]

Epistemologically in regards to Rastafari as a way of life validating the distinction between justified belief and opinion. Rastafari intellectually stands as the Antithesis to the neo-colonial method or way of life . I man give thank to the teachings. Most High Guidance 🦣.

[@percympmakamo3455]

Self love begins with loving your history ( imvelaphi yakho) coz you will always defend what you love and love what you defend. I'm grateful for such insightful knowledge you are sharing with us.

[@Movementsforchange]

I’m here from TikTok. As a dreamer who sees and communes with ancestors I thank you for this.

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Thank you for finding us. We Hope you enjoy.

[@Kiing_Maya]

Siyabulela ngazo ezi zifundiso , nganga mhla uthile ndizibone ndawoni enye nani bantu abadala. I know knowledge is never ending , yet I appreciate what you add on what I know and still yet to learn .

[@Khem3]

I love your reasoning. I am also so pleased that you spoke of InI in Rasta, especially pertaining to the inner Spiritual and the flesh and the other. Also to remember that Rasta say Selassie I not the Selassie the first. We say Yes I meaning the other, we say Iyah , Jahman meaning that Rasta identify with the inner divine. We say Idren for Bredrin. Iawta for daughter. Rasta recognise word sound power. Which equates to the vibration in The Laws of Tehuti or Hermeticism. I sight that HIM in the Irit (spirit) is Ausar in the Kemetic tree of life. Rasta is the bridge for InI in the west to cross over to our Afrikan Self and African Spirituality. Love

[@Khem3]

Further to this - I’m posing that the Rasta InI. Is the Rasta equivalent of Ubuntu. 🖤🖤🖤

[@glenmatte8337]

appreciate this conversation, something is brewing

[@Visionbeatzmuzik]

Yes I Rasta fi Lowe dis Zion talk…mutabaruka been saying this..I dem on point wid eh reasoning.

[@SpiritualEyed]

Rea itumela 🤲🏾🌞

[@Ipeleng_Tlape]

They are speaking in metaphors to my sleeping mind, I need more.

[@mkhanyakudetembe3984]

Give Thanks Gods, Separated from sinners and made to be above the heavens.

[@musamarindi6452]

Beautiful conversation with a wealth of knowledge 🥺🔥👌🏿💯

[@HarrisonKamauharriskam]

very very informative.....mind cracking, boggling as well true and pure Africansim. Thaai Thathaiya Ngai Thaai......

[@skimanization]

I really like it when they say if you can't take the hit of the kitchen just get out of the kitchen!!! Understand, innerstand and overstand!!!

[@K.greenbanks]

Please do more like this talk. Very interesting and very informative. Amazing work my Brothers

[@aishawilliams5933]

I found you all on a clip on Fb . Thank you for sharing your knowledge. One Love from the Island of Trinidad .

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Thank you, hope you have subscribed and have your alerts on for when new videos are uploaded. Thank you for watching.

[@aishawilliams5933]

@@unpopularopinion_za Yes I have , Im subscribed and get notifications and Im also a continuous viewer. I appreciate your content especially when it pertains to African Spirituality. It is time for children of the slave trade in diaspora to get back to our roots . thank you for teaching us .

[@unpopularopinion_za]

@@aishawilliams5933 We appreciate you. Change is coming 🤎🤎🤎

[@aishawilliams5933]

@@unpopularopinion_za I am planning a trip to SA hopefully in September for the new year, do you think there would be any way possible to meet the rastafari teachers?

[@peacefulrakoma4068]

Came here from the tiktok clips. Informative

[@lakongolaise7837]

Lots of knowledge to digest. One thing I picked up is that knowing your maternal language is crucial!

[@miehleketokwinika6060]

Listening is a skill... Hi khensa mahungu lamenene

[@nolwandlentuli294]

I love everything about this content. I would love to adopt this in my life and one day teach it to my children. Baba please recommend books, teachings and or any other material to help in my journey

[@obasanjokwantu]

Hello. Hows your journey going?

[@nolwandlentuli294]

@@obasanjokwantu Hi. I have been applying the teachings where I can and some of them I'm planning to apply in the future when the occasion permits. I still feel that I have a lot to learn. How's your journey?

[@cheruartsofficial]

The knowledge bulldozer thau thau big up

[@motheomorakile1099]

It's a great knowledgeable conversation. I wish Abba Ayalew Amlak would not interfere so much when Master Thau Thau is bringing forth information!

[@riseshine1675]

We give thanks✊🏾🔥🔥🔥

[@Sebaolu9812]

I appreciate this discussion and the balance between within you both. I first seen you both on a documentary about Rastafari tradition, and being a decendent of Afrikans in Jamaica, I overstood that what rastafari means today in Jamaica isn’t as it should be, at least, from my perspective. Thank you for the confirmation Ase

[@maaruz1979]

Jamaican government has kept the people ignorant. Many Rasta have far more real knowledge of historical context of the Bible than the average Jamaicans; there are also different types of Rasta

[@africaknowthyself650]

Very insightful

[@travelermystery63]

Brethren, this is the most blessed and beautiful theological, spiritual conversation and concepts of spiritual awareness and conciousness ,I have had the privilege to have heard ,give thanks ,🌍

[@khotsolloydgama2113]

Thank you for listening to the comments in the first engagement. Thoroughly enjoying this

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Thank you for watching.

[@soraiaV]

Finally things make sense to me… much gratitude.

[@akaniofmzansi4205]

Lol this as made me realised something about my Xitsonga language, we have this tendency of addressing one person as many ( n'wina) instead of you (Wena), I used to think it might be because of respect since we use it mostly on people who are older or of higher status but now I think it might be deeper

[@valenciachauke4923]

Very true. We also in Xitsonga don't have Ugogo or Mkhulu, we called them both Kokwani, not gender specific. But the conversation about idlozi vs ancestors confuses me more as someone who is re-learning about myself. My great-grandmother used to tell me about Ngwarhi refering to god and Swikwembu refering to ancestors. I was so young, I struggle to remember the details of my conversations with her, plus she was so old she was often confused herself.

[@jabulilemaduna9735]

This is what I've been longing to hear wow thank you

[@unpopularopinion_za]

We thank you to for watching. Hope you have subscribed, more coming up.

[@maliquewilliams4027]

Nothing InI will say is different than what InI had already said in these comments. Dua/ammessegenalu/thAnkhs to the I for recording these reasonings and pushing this divine energy. Adept to say the least. Indigenous at its core. After seeing your interviews prior to this in another south african rasta documentary I give thankhs InI get another glimpse into then I upful Spiritual Iditation. Keep up the divine works. 🔥

[@booblam6919]

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

[@leratomonegi3337]

Such Great wisdom, God is good 🙏 Thokozani 🙌

[@MsMousy82]

You should have your own CHANNEL!

[@maletshelamoeletsi9103]

If there was a way of liking a video a million times. Truth to Power!!!

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Just you being here and watching is greatly appreciated, thank you.

[@oscarntuli5350]

Loving the Solution of bringing back self Love

[@jessicam2282]

Beautiful 🙏🏽

[@Another_practicing]

This is mind blowing I'm looking forward for me unpopular opinion 🔥🔥

[@unpopularopinion_za]

Thank you for watching

[@darianclery4455]

Thanks you my king

[@talephahlane9095]

Unpacking moment of new knowledge day by day...Asé

[@dingalodingalo8447]

Thank you Elders.When it comes to church we need to research more.I have different research.

[@Crystaliznwave]

I wish that everyone who is curious can take the time to listen to this interview and stop expecting us to take their ways of life and faith as gospel.

[@thamsanqamashaba4515]

Teach kings teach

[@jamaicantalkoutthebox276]

JUST DISCOVERED THIS CHANNEL... ONE-LOVE FROM JAMAICA.

[@crimeyqueenthehealer3436]

Love this discussion, so clearly explained by men of great wisdom... the bible is layered...you are your ancestors as the ALL is Mental. What is T(H(E)R)E) is also HE)R)E.

[@iamkingweezy]

Very massive 🙌🙌🙌

[@thabisokgabo1402]

This is absolutely amazing, there’s hope for us Africans.

[@luzukosobayeni357]

This episode changed my life

[@unpopularopinion_za]

All Love Brother, we thank you for watching

[@mrsmnamane258]

Makwande 🙏🙌

[@mandlango3137]

Wow AMAZING BUSINESS. MORE FIRE, MORE CONTENT KINGS, ONE LOVE. MORE WE NEED MORE, WE NEED THIS GOOOD FOOD!!!!!

[@debora-june3083]

Awesome, awesome conversation... Very enlightening! Gratitude and Appreciation

[@davidmarshall724]

The Best

[@IR247.]

Powerful Powerful

[@alkebu-lanuniversity2227]

I cant wait to see a conversation between you and mutabaruka! Give thanks

[@LungiswaMsomi]

Thank you. We need more of this information 👏🏿

[@abutihusslapreneurkopano180]

I Think My Elders Here Must Chill Of Be Friends Of The Show Kwa PODCAST & CHILL!!

[@tsokingtsolomon5157]

Belief is more powerful den reality whatever maan believes in is their reality fo we all dont share de same reality we must have a talk when we meet Honorable Thau Thau we only met once in Kwa-Ndebele I didnt know diss was ya view bt its blessed

[@winniethuo9736]

I refuse to be a disciple to these walking African dictionaries because I do not want us to corrupt each other but I love the way they are giving us all study skills. 👏. Death is a means of purification.

[@shabaka4555]

🇪🇹 ONE-LOVE PEACE POWER UNITY AND PAN-AFRIKANISM!! JAH-LIVES RASTA-FARI 🇪🇹

[@larrymuleya2637]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤

[@malebogojenifer4854]

30min in,,,ok I had a friend tell me I have so many personality,and we continued to talk about that sometimes when making a decision there would always be a conflict within yourself 🥺🥺kante I'm here dealing with a whole community 😴

[@unpopularopinion_za]

🤎

[@jahwill7065]

You elders have done justice here, next time please touch on the marriage activities and way of doing things in the Rastafari way of life.

[@kenricktalbert3673]

Each one 1⃣ teaches one!!

[@arnoldkyster8334]

The spritual realm is big.God is a spirit and he manifests himself withing us and around us.The electricity within you.The electricity within the world the electricity is everywhere.In the birds in the soil in every atom.What makes up the atom is God. God is much more bigger than what i can decribe.God is life and death and everything that exists.What is to become and what was. What keeps the universe in perfect balance and orbits.Who keeps the solar system intact.Why doesnt it just fall to nothing? God Is....

[@kristonfelix130]

I'm a lost soul that's seeking the my way.i dream almost every day and don't know what it means and most of the time I when I wait I forget most of my dreams when I try to explain

[@kamogelomakubetsa2451]

thanks for the content ... 💯💯💯

[@Mr_Kevnat]

Give Thanks🙏

[@samuelikagengmangwathe1876]

We are on another level

[@happym3585]

Enjoyed the conversation 🎉

[@sonoftheafricansoil9265]

I'm schooled here it's true when they say if u listen u can learn a lot

[@isaiahwilliams7728]

Give thanks for the education

[@luthandotyler8714]

Learning a lot here... Where can we get hold of u guys there's so much to learn and wish to transfer this knowledge to my daughter....

[@3sotericCompassionist1976]

Excellent reasonings I Bredren 🙏🏽

[@Fiazcko]

Praise to SoNiNiNaNiNi