Charles Edwards

Prince Edward Emmanuel Charles VII (or Charles Edwards born in 1915 with St Elizabeth, Jamaica - deceased in 1996 close to Kingston) is the founder of the current Bobo Ashanti of the Mouvement rastafari.

The Prince meets with Kingston in 1930 the cantor of the return in Africa in the person of Marcus Mosiah Garvey and engages consequently at his sides in his project of repatriation on the continent of their origins. Charismatic, Edwards enjoyed to give a supernatural range to its actions: its faithful protests that it is the Réincarnation of Adonaï.

Prince Emmanuel remains in the collective memory of the Rasta S to have been the first to convene a convention Nyahbinghi in 1958, gathers all the rastafariens island. After a walk is organized on Kingston, the police force will intervene violently and the demonstration will end up dispersing. A police raid destroys its camp and Edwards is stopped at once with 90 of its faithful. Famous to have defended the warriors Mau-Mau S with the Kenya, the lawyer Barrister Evans manages to obtain the payment. The appearance of new radical currents rejecting the old leaders leads however to an irremediable loss of influence of Edwards. Drawn aside of the movement rastafarien, it is folded up in its camp of Bull Bay, a few kilometres from Kingston, where its mégalomaniaques tendencies are reinforced (it will write in particular with Bill Clinton and the queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II by signing her multiple titles, such " Monarch of Supremacy noire").

Prince Emmanuel is not invited to the mission in Africa (for possible study of repatriation), but it will belong to the thirty and a elders invited to the official reception of Hailé Sélassié, which will give its medal to him out of gold struck to the effigy of the lion of Judaea.

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