Mango Flavour

THROW THAT ASS THEN!!! 👀👀🍑🍑🤤🤤

knowyourcaribbean I just gonna rest this right here. No, they are not the same thing, yet in the Caribbean we are a culmination of descendants of many, including many different tribes from several countries in West and Central Africa. Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Mali, Congo, Angola, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Côte D’Ivoire, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, The Gambia…

The tradional festival we see here from Western Cameroon is called Danse Bamileke/ Kang à batié - or Kang Festival. I know very little about why they use the black oil or the horns.

And in the Caribbean, we have a very specific Caribbean reason as to why we do it, honouring our history with enslavement , as survivors, celebrating our Blackness, honouring those who came before.

Yet, when I see moments like this, I recognise that yes, our Caribbean story is our Caribbean story, yet so much of it has roots from elsewhere.

Perhaps one ancestor from Cameroon taught others from other tribes that covering with Black was the way to honour, to remember … who knows.

A little moment of food for thought.