In the 20th century, the name "Nyabinghi" was adopted by practitioners of Jamaican Rastafari as a term for their gatherings and later for the drumming style used in religious practices.
Nyabinghi, or Nyabingi, was a legendary woman of the Bahororo tribe whose name means "mother of abundance" or "the one who possesses many things" in the Mpororo language.
[6] Philos claimed that there was a secret society across South Africa called the "Nya-Binghi" which was devoted to the message: "Death to all White Farmers."
He also maintained that the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie had been made head of this order in 1930 at a secret meeting held in Moscow, capital of the Soviet Union.
[6] Philos' article was designed as propaganda to rally support for European colonial attempts to suppress anti-colonial efforts on the African continent.