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Dr. Louis Moyston

Dr. Louis Moyston
Dr
Louis
Moyston
Job Title
Adjunct Lecturer
Email
louis.moyston@uwi.edu
    Publications

    ThesisAn Exploration into the Emergence Of Leonard P. Howell and Early Rastafari during the Critical Years of the Anti-Colonial Struggles in Jamaica, 1933 to 1938.

    Writing experience:

    He has produced a few chapters for three books: “Seaforth in the Eye of the Storm” in Caribbean Political Activism edited by Rupert Lewis, (2012); “Howell in the Studies of Rastafari” and “Leonard P. Howell: A Portrait” in Leonard P. Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari edited by Clinton Hutton et al (2015); and Chapter 3 “Democracy in Jamaica: Flawed and Twisted” in newly published book, Flawed Democracy and Development In Jamaica, edited by Dr. Stacy Ann Wilson (2024). His major writings in manuscript form are: Rastafari Uprising:  Leonard P. Howell and the Rise of Early RastaRastafari Exodus: the Movement of Rastafari in the Age of Imperialism and The Ganja Chronicles: The Laws vs. The People which are completed, awaiting refinement and an opportunity for publication. He has been writing in Jamaican newspapers for over two decades.

    Research interests:

    Political history of Jamaica; Democracy and Education in Jamaica; the philosophy of Rastafari; and in the area of philosophy, an examination of Frantz Fanon’s interpretation of Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and its application to European slavery and colonialism in the West Indies-a study of Black Skin White Mask.