Robert Athlyi Rogers
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Robert Athlyi Rogers born in Anguilla
, was the author of the Holy Piby
, generally recognized as one of most important texts in Rastafarian Theology. It was written between 1913 and 1917, and published in 1924. Rogers committed suicide on 24th August 1931.
Anguilla
Anguilla is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin...
, was the author of the Holy Piby
Holy Piby
The Holy Piby is a proto-Rastafarian text written by an Anguillan, Robert Athlyi Rogers , for the use of an Afrocentric religion in the West Indies founded by Rogers in the 1920s, known as the Afro-Athlican Constructive Gaathly. The theology outlined in this work saw Ethiopians as the chosen...
, generally recognized as one of most important texts in Rastafarian Theology. It was written between 1913 and 1917, and published in 1924. Rogers committed suicide on 24th August 1931.