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What “Jamaica” Really Means — And The Myth Of It Being A Country of Mixed People

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Okunini Talawa
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⁣Dr. Okunini Talawa Adodo is a Jamaican Pan-Afrikanist scholar who focuses on Afrikan history, Afrocentric theory, and Afrikan language.

In Part 1 of this insightful reasoning, Dr. Okunini Talawa Adodo explores the theory that the name "Jamaica" may not have originated with the Taíno people, but rather from the Akan language—specifically the phrase Gyamere Yaka, meaning “we are stuck.” Dr. Adodo also challenges the popular belief that Jamaica is simply a country of mixed people, instead offering the perspective that it is a land of diverse African ethnic groups who arrived from different regions of the continent.

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Ọbádélé Kambon

I actually never really bought into the whole "Gyama yɛaka" idea.

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Ọbádélé Kambon

This is the first map depicting iamaica dates to 1511 https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Pietro_Mar The first enslaved Abibifoɔ arrived in 1513. https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5431/

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Babasola Adejola
Babasola Adejola 20 days ago

the mulatto and their white benefactors

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Okunini Talawa
Okunini Talawa 19 days ago

yep gotta make sure we don't separate creator and creation

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