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With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author?s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father?s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet.Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair?s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman?s highest virtue was her obedience.In an effort to keep Babylon outside the gate, he forbade almost everything. In place of pants, the women in her family were made to wear long skirts and dresses to cover their arms and legs, head wraps to cover their hair, no make-up, no jewelry, no opinions, no .
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Author : Safiya Sinclair
Pages : pages
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ISBN-10 : 62919742
ISBN-13 : 9781982132330
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