Actually the meaning of the song is inclined toward the Rastafarian movement, who believed that the black people should unite and go back to Africa. In the Bible (I'm not religious so don't take my word for it, I just study African decolonization) the Hebrew population is enslaved in Babylon, so you can translate this to the African diaspora, people taken away from their homes to suffer forever and always the homeland, this peaceful place before the arrival of the white man.
The idea of the Rastafarian movement is translating the Bible in a new way to give answers to the, then, shackled populations all over the world. Ethiopia was first seen as the promised land, because it had withstood colonization until the 1930s, and the term Rastafarian was actually the name of a Ethiopian prince that was popularized in the Western world.
My history isn't the best, so if anyone can confirm or help it would be great.
Actually the meaning of the song is inclined toward the Rastafarian movement, who believed that the black people should unite and go back to Africa. In the Bible (I'm not religious so don't take my word for it, I just study African decolonization) the Hebrew population is enslaved in Babylon, so you can translate this to the African diaspora, people taken away from their homes to suffer forever and always the homeland, this peaceful place before the arrival of the white man. The idea of the Rastafarian movement is translating the Bible in a new way to give answers to the, then, shackled populations all over the world. Ethiopia was first seen as the promised land, because it had withstood colonization until the 1930s, and the term Rastafarian was actually the name of a Ethiopian prince that was popularized in the Western world.
My history isn't the best, so if anyone can confirm or help it would be great.