Recognizing Rastafari: A new chapter for religion in Kenya

This rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrates the Rastafari’s expanding ranks in Kenya, according to members of this congregation.

Kenya only recently accepted Rastafari as a legitimate religion.

The turning point was in 2019 when a schoolgirl was expelled for refusing to cut off her dreadlocks, a symbol of her religion.

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