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1. Why were a hundred thousand "Rasta bredern" at the airport in Chapter 1?

A hundred thousand "Rasta bredern" (7) overran Kington's Palisadoes Airport in April 1966. The man they believed to be a living god, the emperor Haile Selassie, was coming to Jamaica, and the Rastafarians wanted to see him.

2. What was Pinnacle, and what happened to the commune?

Pinnacle was a commune built by Leonard Percival Howell to be a peaceful self-sustaining society for Rasta. In 1963, when the Rasta refused to relinquish the farmlands there, a military operation was launched. More than 150 Rastas were dragged from their homes and imprisoned and tortured. An unknown number were killed.

3. What happened when Haile Selassie's plane landed in Jamaica?

When Haile Selassie's plane landed in Jamaica, he feared for his safety as Rastas learned on the wheel of his plane and chanted. A Rasta leader, Mortimer Planno, was sent to board the plane and speak to Selassie. After speaking to the emperor, Planno asked the crowd to be calm. When Selassie appeared at the airplane door, Rasta bredren, sistren, and children cheered and waved. Selassie descended the plane's stairs and waved back. When he got to the ground, he stepped in the mud and not on the carpet laid for him to walk on.

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