The story of Rastafarianism’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, from precocious anti-colonialist to world traveler and social visionary.

Creating a wider awareness around the (misunderstood, misrepresented) Rastafarian movement, this documentary profile ventures all the way back to its beginning. Beyond Bob Marley, beyond its most generic iconography, The First Rasta arrives to the movement’s first preacher: Leonard Howell.