Presenter: Dr. Amina Blackwood Meeks
Founder and Artistic Director of Ananse SoundSplash,

Ananse, the Spider-god of the Akan people of Ghana has survived in stories across the African diaspora. This qualifies him to be a symbol of African cultural retention. Yet he continues to be regarded with ambivalence. This perhaps mirrors the value placed on African retention, still searching for an honourable place in national life, excluded from discourse about “serious matters” such as national development and education, made to operate at the margins as entertainment, as metaphor for the undesirable and confined to spaces of near invisibility. Yet the impact of globalisation on the identity of post- colonial peoples and the resources available to determine their own agenda demand a change in this profile.

Whether you're a student, researcher, cultural practitioner, or simply curious about Jamaica’s heritage, this session will deepen your understanding of the African elements that continue to enrich our culture.

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Jamaica News Today - Television Jamaica (TVJ) a Trusted Source for News, Sports & Entertainment.

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Gil Noble being honest about his initial thoughts on Nana Omowale Malcolm X and the reason why he had said thoughts -- within the larger context of whitenization .

Nana Frances Cress Welsing explains the role of 'the system of white supremacy' and aamw sexual predation of Black men

Mela Caribe x Machel Montano x DJ Private Ryan - Dancing in the Streets
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Song title - Dancing in the Streets
Artists - Mela Caribe, Machel Montano, DJ Private Ryan
Producer - DJ Private Ryan
Writers - Shereese Edmund, Machel Montano & Ryan Alexander
Additional Production - Machel Montano
Bass & Additional Production - JusNow
Tassa Drums & Additional Percussions - Lunatix productions
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Mixed & Mastered by - JusNow

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Director: Ryan Qd Navarro
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Production Company: Rabu Studios
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Patoranking returns with his second official single, “African Soldier,” from his upcoming album, a powerful collaboration with the legendary @bujubanton

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Label: Amari Musiq LTD
Exec Producer/Management: Rickie Davies
Management: Obed Kaze, Yomi Ogunsola
Exec Producer/Commissioner: Kofi Jr

Director: UAX
Prod Company: Fatking Films
Producer: Omar Reynoso
Pre-Pro Producer: Nem Fisher
Prod. Coordinator: Dasha Gusarova
DOP: Parris Stewart
1st AC: David Lunsford
2nd AC: Kezjahree
Steadicam Op: Kyle Fasanella
1st AD: Fritz Valerus
2nd AD: Mike Lee
Editor: Motunde Yahaya
Grade: Cleyder Duque
Gaffer: Vladimir Dabovic
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Grip: Kurtis Pfingst
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SA Stylist: Maya Aisha
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Art Director: Rich Han

Audio:
Producer: Paul “Jazzwad” Yebuah
Vocal Recording Engineer: Kuuka - Philip Akinkuade
Mixing Engineer: James Bonzai Caruso
Mastering Engineer: Maor Appelbaum


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⁣Reduplication is one of the most sophisticated linguistic tools in human language and Jamaicans have been doing it for centuries.
Linguists at Cambridge, UC Berkeley, and Oxford have studied this phenomenon across hundreds of languages. What they found? Repeating a word to intensify, extend, or deepen its meaning is a grammatically structured, cognitively grounded system — and it is especially alive and well in West and Central African languages like Akan, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and Gbe.
When enslaved Africans were brought to Jamaica in the 17th century, they came from dozens of different language groups — but reduplication was a thread common across all of them. It survived the Middle Passage. It survived colonialism. It survived centuries of being told our language was "broken."
It didn't survive by accident. It survived because it works.
Saying something twice feels like doing it twice. Feeling it twice. Meaning it more. Linguists call this iconicity — when the form of a word mirrors its meaning. It's one of the most natural things a human being can do with language, documented even in how babies first learn to speak.
So the next time someone tells you Patois isn't a real language — tell them wi no chat so by accident.
Wi carry Africa ina wi mout!

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Tamu - Mosiah's Children ft. Mayiki

Kids Animation: Janet an’ de Mongrel
Episode 1: Janet Saves the Day
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Wah deh galang! Welcome to "Janet an’ de Mongrel! 🐶
In this Caribbean kids animation, Janet and ar feisty but loyal mongrel dog go on everyday adventures, learning big lessons with likkle laughtah, and soso madness but wid likke education.

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In this video , a Ghanaian finds SHOCKING similarities between Jamaica's Kromanti, Patois and Ghana's Fantse/Twi. Dive into the remarkable life of Nanny of the Maroons, Jamaica's only female national hero.

The Moore Town Maroons of Jamaica - Maroon Kromanti Language

From her early days in Ghana to her legendary leadership of the Maroons, discover the legacy of a woman who fought for freedom against all odds. Don't forget to subscribe for more inspiring stories from history.

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The Untold Story of Nanny of the Maroons: Jamaica's Fierce Freedom Fighter

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The Caribbean's carnivals all have several common themes, many originating from Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, based on folklore, culture, religion,and tradition (thus relating to the European use of the word, not amusement rides, as the word "carnival" is often used to mean in American English). Carnival tradition is based on a number of disciplines including: "Playing Mas"/masquerade; calypso music and crowning a Calypso King or Monarch; Panorama (steel band competition); J'ouvert morning; and a number of other traditions.

Samora - Suriname Gyal (Official Music Video)

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#samora #staudenmann #surinamegyal written by Samora Staudenmann, Ludovic Hoarau & Res Staudenmann

Mixed by Ludovic Hoarau

Mastered by Oli Bösch

Cover Picture by Res Staudenmann

Cover Artwork by Res Staudenmann

Label: Staudenmann

Distributed by 21st Hapilos Digital Distribution

Video directed by Res Staudenmann

Video edited by Kalouk Juste

Pan-Africanist, Prof PLO Lumumba has lamented the state of the African continent. In a wide ranging public lecture speech at the Rongo University in Kenya, PLO Lumumba says democracy is foreign to Africa and that African must go back to her roots to revive the indigenous forms of government which was practised before Africa became colonised.

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Nana Omowale Malcom X on panel for PBS open your mind show

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If the link doesn't work, just let me know because I have a pdf of the article.

RIP Claudius. 'Backra' is for the slave, is when the 'backra' is 'back', your back is raw. They always rip the slaves at the back, so when they hit them they said the 'back-ra(w)'. When they hit these guys the guy said (sings): 'Backraaaa massa, backraaaa massa, no give me them life I'm living here, 'cause when the sun goes down the moon comes around, the falling of one tribe is the rising of the other, if you see me mister Backraaaa massaaaa, no gimme them life I'm living ya, I'm gonna catch the freedom train that's bound to Zion I would say, I'm gonna catch that freedom train Backra massa, Backraaaa massa, Backra massaaa-a-a, no give me the life I'm living ya, no gimme them life I'm living here...'

Album : Vincy Mas
Arranged By Frankie McIntosh. 1986

Jamiekan se "a" bifuor di vob fi mek yu nuo wa "a" gwaan. Dem kaal 'progressive aspect'. Jamiekan siem laka Igbo an Yoruba -- big op 'Jamaican Sinting' chanl.

Jamaican Anancy Stories as written by Louise Bennett-Coverley OM, OJ, MBE.


The story spins the tale of why Nanny Goat goes Braaa... is Anancy mek it