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This is FRESH AIR.
Im Dave Davies.
Today were going to listen to the interview Terry Gross recorded last year with jamaican poet Sophia Sinclaire when her memoir, how to say Babylon, was published.
The book is now out in paperback.
I'll let Terry introduce it.
My guest, Sophia Sinclair, grew up in a Rasta family in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Her father is a reggae singer and guitarist.
Her hair was twisted into dreadlocks until she was 19.
Here's what being Rasta meant in her life.
Men ruled.
Women were subservient.
Women's place was as mother, cook and homemaker.
The outside world was Babylon, corrupt, debauched or associated with colonialism or the police.
The people in Babylon were heathen and to be avoided, God.
Jah was Haile Selassie, who was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
His portrait, Sinclair writes, was exalted and worshipped in the many rented homes of her childhood.