The Earth Most Strangest Man

by Mortimo Planno, with an Introduction by Lambros Comitas

An excerpt from the Introduction:

Late in the summer of 1969, while visiting anthropology students in Jamaica, I tried to find Mortimo Planno, a Rastafarian who I had briefly met on an earlier field trip to the island...Planno proposed I write a book about Rastafari. This was a time when little published material existed about that movement and its followers. Although flattered, I turned this intriguing suggestion aside saying, quite truthfully, that my knowledge of the subject was superficial but that a book about Rastafari authored by a knowledgeable Rastafarian would make much more sense and would be a much more worthwhile contribution. So, “Brother Kumi, you write the book, you’re absolutely the right person”. He thought a moment and replied, “How do you write a book?” A day later, after being given a school notebook containing many blank, blue-lined pages, he asked, “How do I know when it’s finished?” Easy, came the glib answer, “When all the pages are filled!” And, as memory holds, Mortimo Planno handed me "The Earth Most Strangest Man: The Rastafarian" all filled one hundred hand-written pages, just three weeks later.


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