TEACHER OF TEACHERS

I was to photograph Mortimo Planno at 56 Hope Road.

 

 I love Brother Kumi. Jah bless.

We decided now to use the POP MUSIC ... to take out the E in the POPE and call it POP, and use the POP MUSIC to influence the youth. And if one really looks at the world today you'll see that apart from the seven hundred million Roman Catholics the church boast about, there are more than seven hundred million youth attracted to pop music. (Planno 1979)

TELL OUT KING RASTA DOCTRINE AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD

I was blessed to have been in the presence of Brother Kumi. I give thanks.
Today September 6th is Brother Kumi's Earthday. Rasta never die.

“We are volunteer Ethiopians

Agitating for our Rights

And We’ll never stop fight

Until we brake down Babylon Wall.” Planno 1996

 

 

 

 

In the words of a witness, Bro. Dyer, an elder who Planno inspired into the faith of Rastafari and who later walked to Ethiopia from Spain – “Planno open his mouth and began to teach them about their history”. Planno recalls starting with the Psalm that was unfolding before him and he spoke thus: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against the lord, and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh… (Psalm 2:1-4)

He earned the title of “Prime Minister for the day”

in the local newspaper. The arrival of the Emperor had been dreamt of and desired ever since the doctrine emerged in the 1930s. For those three days Jamaica had become Ethiopia according to Planno’s analysis.

 

“[A]s we get the opportunity we use it, use it fi carry one foot forward. Every time an opportunity open the door we go through that door and call down Africa pon dem. Marcus Garvey learn from Mohammed Ali that the people of the Caribbean want to learn more about Africa. And him Marcus

Garvey did not have the language to tell it to the people. Him didn’t really have that approach. The Rastaman for instance have a better approach than him in telling the people about back-to-Africa…to explain to you who can’t read – what British write – how “you going to suffer through your own desire”. Planno 1998

 

“Ethiopia the Aincient Kingdom of Africa has made an unnoticed expansion of the Ethiopian Kingdom. From one end of the Earth to the other. Africa being inhabited by invading

European Nations Has lost most of her written history to the invaders, who in turn copy and then destroy the original…” Planno 1996

 

 

BROTHER KUMI'S MUSE...CAROLE YAWNEY

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BROTHER KUMI & THE LEGEND DISCUSS SURVIVAL

I was to take this photograph in 1980 whilst working on probably the only Rastafarian newspaper ever published. Survival. In the frame are Mr. Robert Nesta Marley, left, the publisher, and second right, Mr. Mortimo Planno, the editor. Mr Planno, or 'Brother Kummi', was the gentleman who taught Mr. Marley the principles of Rastafari and other things. It has recently come to ones attention that this is a rare image capturing both together. This photograph will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, due to be published in August, 2012.