Kumina in Jamaica Kumina or CuBa is a cultural form indigenous to Jamaica.[1] It is a religion, music and dance practiced by, in large part, Jamaicans who reside in the eastern parish on St. Thomas on the island. These people have retained the drumming and dancing of the Akan people. Like the Kongo practitioners from Cuba, who have kept a large amount of the Kongo language alive. Bantu-speaking peoples of the Congo. In the Americas there are many Kongo-derived religions still being practiced today
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Background Let us at this point have a brief look fifteen years back from the first organizational stirrings of the Bago which was the establishment of the Bago Cultural Society, Incorporated in Baguio City in 1987. The highlight and culmination of the efforts of this organization was their coordinating the First Bago Congress under the sponsorship of the Office of the Northern Cultural Communities then headed by the very active Regional Director Rosalina Bistoyong. Director Bistoyong has espoused
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Name: Mikhail Farquharson Subject: Caribbean History School: Glenmuir High School Candidate Number: Teacher: Mrs. P. Meikle Year of Examination: 2015 Name: Mikhail Farquharson Subject: Caribbean History School: Glenmuir High School Candidate Number: Teacher: Mrs. P. Meikle Year of Examination: 2015 SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT Theme 3: Resistance and revolt The economic effects of the Haitian Revolution on Haiti The Haitian Revolution was a
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returned from the Caribbean islands, which he believed to be India, did others realize it was possible to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. A hundred years after Columbus’s findings, numerous explorers had successfully sailed across the Atlantic Ocean into America and also around the tip of Africa. This led to the Columbian exchange, the Great Convergence, and the beginning of the Atlantic World System. The origin of the Atlantic System was Columbus discovering the eastern Caribbean. Following this
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Immigration Essay ‘Immigration has a significant impact on UK society’ Assess this view. (15 Marks) Immigration is the act of someone coming to live in a different country. To a certain extent immigration has had a significant impact on UK society, however some people may argue this view. In my opinion immigration has brought multiple benefits to our society; for example immigration has brought a variety of food, culture, attributable skills and diversity into the UK. In the 2 years after the
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contact with in American in 1492? The peoples who Europeans came into contact with in the American in fourteen ninety two is the Ciboney or Guanahacabible. They also met the three major Caribbean groups whom they labelled Arawak, Caribs and Maya. 2. Choose one South American indigenous group and one Caribbean indigenous group. How were they described by European explorers/ invaders [refer to appearance, religious, beliefs, gender role and political system]? One South American indigenous
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Bibliography Black Mecca Thesis: West African Muslims immigrants fit into the fabric of Harlem, New York, and how they have challenged established notions of Islam, race, and cultural difference in one of the centers of black culture, thought, and politics. Alain LeRoy Locke, The New Negro, 1925. This book provides a great look at the history of West African Muslims in Harlem. Also it talks about
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Mulgrove, etc. They would then develop into a middle class and help to stabilize the society. European labour was imported mainly by Jamaica. They were: Scots, Irish, Germans, British laburers. They started going in 1835 Madeirans came to the Caribbean due to low wages. Madera is a Portuguese colony in the Atlantic where sugar cane was cultivated. Portuguese from Azores went to Trinidad in 1834.
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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-43544-4 - Liberties Lost: Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene A. Shepherd Excerpt More information Chapter 1 The indigenous Caribbean people Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival .... Bob Marley Three thousand years before the Christian era a distinct Caribbean civilisation was established. These civilisations had a strong influence on the peoples of the ancient world. They, together with other communities
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the Royal Africa Company in 1672, but the supply still failed to meet the demand, and all types of private traders entered the transatlantic commerce. Between 1518 and 1870, the transatlantic slave trade supplied the greatest proportion of the Caribbean population. As sugarcane cultivation increased and spread from island to island--and to the neighboring mainland as well--more Africans were brought to replace those who died rapidly and easily under the rigorous demands of labor on the plantations
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