WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -In accordance with Rastafarian tradition, the children wear their hair in dreadlocks and cover their head and hair when outside the home and/or when in public because it is a form of religious expression and practice amongst the Rastafarian community. Theistic Rastafarians cite Old Testament scripture on this claim.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rastafari is Afrocentric and focuses attention on the African diaspora, which it believes is oppressed within Western society, or “Babylon". Many Rastas call for this diaspora’s resettlement in Africa, a continent they consider the Promised Land, or “Zion".