Leonard Percival Howell, also known as The Gong, was a Jamaican religious figure and one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement, known by many as The First Rasta. Beginning in 1933 he preached that the 1930 crowning of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was the Messiah returned to earth, publishing his teaching as The Promised Key, and he was tried for sedition and imprisoned for two years as a result. He founded the commune of Pinnacle in Saint Catherine Parish, which became a center of the growing Rastafari faith. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Before temporarily settling in Panama in 1918, he travelled back and forth between New York City and Panama several times.
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He was one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement (along with Joseph Hibbert and Archibald Dunkley), and is known by many as The First Rasta.
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He was one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement (along with Joseph Hibbert and Archibald Dunkley), and is known by many as The First Rasta.
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Leonard Percival Howell (16 June 1898-23 January 1981), also known as The Gong or G. G. Maragh (for Gangun Guru), was a Jamaican religious figure.
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was a Jamaican religious figure and one of the first preachers of the Rastafari movement
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His preaching asserted that Haile Selassie was the "Messiah returned to earth", and he published a book called The Promised Key.
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