Stories
the narratives it tells itself
The coronation.
Marcus Garvey had said: look to Africa, where a Black king shall be crowned. In 1930 the newspapers carried the photographs from Addis Ababa — and in the yards of Kingston, readers of scripture recognized what they saw.
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The Bible, read from Zion.
The same book the missionaries brought, read the other way around: Ethiopia at the center, the king on the throne, and Babylon all around.
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