It is a sad day for the world's Rasta family. Matriarch Rastafari Mama Fayah transcended Zion to the 70 years of age as their relatives confirmed, After suffering cancer for a long time.
“It is a very sad day because my mother -in -law died and arrived at the ancestors after fighting the disease for months. Mama Fayah's work and legacy will live through his children, grandchildren and great -grandchildren and his beloved Nyahbinghi family”, He wrote his daughter -in -law on his social networks Lioness Cristal Dyke-Morand.
Mama Fayah, whose name was Pearline Wolfe, He was born in Kingston the 30 April 1954, She was the daughter of Bongo David Wolfe Y Rubi Edward, both important members in the development of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica.
In fact, His father was the chief of kette, The drums, who received Haile Selassie during his visit to Jamaica 21 April 1966. further, Mama Fayah herself had the “blessing” to see it and an important revelation.
“When he looked me in the eye, My eyes began to blink… It was like a magnet! I blinked until it stopped, He clouded, tears fell and finally I began to see well again”, remembered, also highlighting that “I'm sure he is chosen!”.
Between 1972 Y 1980 He had 5 children and subsequently had 10 losses during successive pregnancies, however in 1996, with 42 years, A new pregnancy could reach end, Born Taitu, Your youngest daughter, that bears the name of an Ethiopian Empress who was the third wife of Menelik II, which participated in the battle of Adwa, where Ethiopian forces managed to defeat Italy's invasion.
After the birth of Taitu, Mama Fayah decided to celebrate Adwa's victory during the last 12 years in Portland, Jamaica, in the tabernacle built on its land where he worked hard to make him a Rastafari Indigenous Center.
He also had to face a uterus cancer in 2013 and despite chemotherapy and radiation, Mama Fayah did not lose a hair or a dread of her head after a month of treatment, While feding with green juices with miraculous plants, coconut water and with its faith, According to your biography.
Visit to Chile
Mama Fayah was also in Chile. In February of 2017 He arrived in the country with his youngest daughter, Taitu, in a delegation by Elders Rastafari Nyahbinghi that traveled to the Rastafari Summit for Unit organized by the Nyahbinghi and Bobo Ashanti houses in the country, and that he contemplated his participation in the Festival Ralak 9 and in subsequent activities carried out in the dependencies of the respective houses.
During his stay he shared with the Rastafari community throughout Chile and also headed A Jamaican cooking class carried out in the Bunna cafeteria.
Jorge Espinoza, also know as Jordán Bunna, He remembered with love that event that took place in March of 2017 that left unforgettable teachings, considering that there was no money to buy the inputs, food, For activity.
“Mama Fayah meant for Bunna and her family a deep feeling, mainly in learning life and its tests, The difficult thing to get certain things, When we spent bad times and how we overcome them. Sometimes, When everything gets gray, Everything becomes without a solution and we believe there is nothing to do, tan solo ‘Jah will provide’ (Jah will provide) It is the solution”, said to Reggae Chalice.
“That morning (Before the event) We speak it, Because I said that sentence when we obtained the inputs for the activity and put the fruits and vegetables under the image of Haile Selassie in the cafeteria. She, Mama Fayah, Analyzed that phrase ‘Jah Will Provide’ and the strength of the word. From that moment, When everything gets difficult, I always remember ‘Jah Will Provide’ by mother Fayah”, stressed.
Find Niko: I remember his strength as a warrior and priestess
While, The sociologist Nicolas Pozo, who shared with Mama Fayah in Chile and then, in 2018, He traveled to Jamaica with a delegation of Rastafaris Chileans To participate in the activities for the coronation of their imperial majesty Haile Selassie I and Woisero Menen, recalled the reception they received from the matriarch.
“In 2017 Mama Fayah blessed us with his presence at the Rastafari Summit for Unit and Ralak carried out here in Chile”, says who is also known as Find Niko.
“In 2018 She received us with great love there in Jamaica, and Portland, And I remember, Rememoro and I go back to the heart of his strength as a warrior and priestess Nyahbinghi, His teaching through the word sound of Ethiopian history, From the battle of Adwa, Anticolonialist Victoria”, The author of the book added “Singing down Babylon in the 4 Earth points”.
