Bobo Shanty

Address: 
11, chemin de la Ferme
69120 Vaulx-en-Velin
France
Registration date: 
Monday, June 14, 2010
Registration details: 

Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.

Status: 
Unknown
Type: 
Pan-African focused
Scope: 
Regional/local: A smaller organization or association focused on local/regional activities.
Summary of objectives: 

The objectives of the association Bobo Shanty are as follows:

  • To promote the lifestyle and teachings related to the Order of Bobo Shanty; that is, the teachings of the Afro-Jamaican leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the founder of the 'Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress' (EABIC) Emmanuel Charles Edwards, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Salassié and his Empress Woizero Menen
  • To provide financial and material assistance to the EABIC 
  • To redeem the land of Ethiopia (the term 'Ethiopia' referring to and including the African continent as a whole) and the Black People of the Diaspora
  • To obtain Freedom, Redemption and Repatriation to the Mother Africa of all Black People, named sons of African slaves, now dispersed throughout the western world because of slavery and the inhuman and cruel slave trade, who wish to return home and work for the development of Mother Africa
  • To help the needy by providing food and monetary contributions to the poor.
Keywords: 
African culture
African diaspora
African roots
Anti-imperialism
Anti-neocolonialism
Ethiopianism
Memories of slavery
Pan-Africanism
Rastafarianism
Reparations
Restitution
Social justice