Bob
Marley’s wife, Rita Marley, announced Wednesday that she plans to
exhume Bob Marley’s remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his
"spiritual resting place," Ethiopia. Marley was born in Jamaica in
1945, and died in 1981 of cancer.
The reburial is set for an unspecified date after a month-long
celebration entitled “Africa Unite” to be held next month in Ethiopia.
“Africa Unite,” which is supported by the Ethiopian church and
government, would help raise funds for poor families in the country.
Rita
Marley said her husband would be reburied in Shashemene, 155 miles
south of Addis Ababa where several hundred Rastafarians have lived
since they were given land by Ethiopia's last emperor, Haile Selassie.
Hailie is thought of a living God by thousands of Jamaicans and is head
of the Rastafarian religious movement.
Marley was a
devout Rastafarian, a faith whose followers preach a oneness with
nature, grow their hair into long matted strands called dreadlocks and
smoke marijuana as a sacrament.
The Marley Family, Senegal's Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour, Angelique
Kidjo of Benin and other African and reggae artists will perform at
“Africa Unite” which is expected to be broadcast in Africa and beyond.
Source:
CNN.com
