Young Jamaican couple at the Twelve Tribes of Israel headquarters.  In 1948, the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, known as Ras Tafari (or Ras Teferi) before his coronation, donated 200 hectares (500 acres) to members of the Rastafarian movement, the Ethiopian World Federation.  This grant permitting settlers from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to settle here but it was not until 1964 that the first settler, Gladstone Robinson arrived in Shashemene.  At one time, the Rasta population swelled past 2,000 but now there are fewer than 300 Rastafarians living here.  Shashemene, Ethiopia.