Shashemane, Ethiopia. Shashemene, about 155 miles south of the capital of Addis Ababa, is the Rastafarian capital of Ethiopia, where Jamaicans and other Africans began to repatriate after Emperor Haile Selassie I granted 500 acres of land in 1948. The land grant has since been reduced in size, but hundreds of Rastafarian families live in the community amidst Ethiopian Christian Orthodox neighbors.