The author speaks with fellow Jamaican writer Nicole Dennis-Benn about her new work. 'In Jamaica,' Sinclair says, 'we have this idea of 'Keep your family secrets to yourself' and also 'Keep your nation’s secrets to yourself.''
Safiya Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon is a memoir that has been called “lushly observed and keenly reflective” by the Washington Post and very warmly reviewed elsewhere. It tracks the author’s childhood in Jamaica, where she was raised by a strict Rastafai father, the potential escape that a nascent career in modeling might have offered her, and the foreclosed possibility when her father forbade her from cutting her dreadlocks.
It's a sacred marker of their devotion to Jah, who is, as you know, the Godhead figure of Rastafari, rooted in the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. Wearing dreadlocks is similar to other religions in which devotees wear a habit or a turban or any kind of religious garb, a signifier to outsiders that you’re faithful to this particular religion.
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