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Planno was a key figure in the rise of Rastafarianism in Jamaica.

I appreciated One Love sharing the special relationship between Marley and his Rastafarian teacher, Mortimo Planno.

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Mortimo Planno, a philosopher regarded as a key figure in the development of the Rastafarian religion, died Monday at the University of the West Indies in.

Mortimo Planno, noted Rastafari elder, was appointed Honorary.

Norman G. Lederman (deceased) was the Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.

He was an elder in the Nyahbinghi mansion (or branch) of the movement when Marley and the Wailers visited his "Ras Tafari encampment" on 5th Street in Trench Town, Kingston, near Marley's own home, in the mid-1960s. There Planno, with dreadlocks and flowing white robes, called himself a "thoughtist" and acted as a spiritual guru to Rastafarians or to anyone else seeking advice.

Under his influence, Trench Town had become the spiritual power point of the movement, which worshipped Ras Tafari, the original name of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I, and called for the repatriation of the descendants of black slaves from the New World to the promised land of Ethiopia.

Planno was credited with bringing it recognition, rights, structure and even respectability from the 1950s. Known as Brother Kumi, he was a founding member of the Ethiopian Orthodox church in Jamaica and the driving force behind the Ras