The Kebra Negast is the Bible of the ancient people of Ethiopia, which incorporates the story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and depicts Jesus Christ as black. Banned in parts of the Caribbean to keep down insurrection over the centuries, this history has been handed down orally by the people of Jamaica, Haiti and the West Indies. This volume incorporates this oral tradition and the single extant English translation, published by Egyptologist Wallis Budge in 1922, with an introduction by Ziggy Marley.