Saturday
Jan152005
Ethiopia reburial for Bob Marley
Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 01:31AM
The widow of the reggae star Bob Marley said yesterday that she
planned to exhume his remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his
"spiritual resting place", Ethiopia. The reburial is set for an
unspecified date after month-long celebrations of the 60th anniversary
of Marley's birth, to be held next month in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian
church and government officials had expressed support for the project,
Rita Marley said. Marley was born in St Ann, Jamaica, in 1945. He died
of cancer in 1981. Mrs Marley said the remains would be reburied in
Shashemene, 150 miles south of Addis Ababa, where several hundred
Rastafarians have lived since they were given land by Ethiopia's last
emperor, Haile Selassie. Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans embraced
Selassie as their living god and head of the Rastafarian religious
movement. Marley was a devout Rastafarian, a faith whose followers
preach a oneness with nature, grow their hair into dreadlocks, and
smoke marijuana as a sacrament. [more]