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Via @caribbeanfilm 📽 #CaribbeanCinemaNights w/ @printbyprint ... we're back at @hiartsnyc, this Saturday, July 7, with films on #CaribbeanFolklore: Parish Bull by @rastingle Michael, is the PARISH BULL!!! Confident, charming and without scruples, Michael is not afraid to make his bed, but he may be afraid to lay in it. and The Coming of Org Movie by @davinaleefilms “THE COMING OF ORG,” is based on short stories written by John Robert Lee, a Saint Lucian writer. They were adapted for the screen by his daughter, Executive Producer and Director, Davina Lee. The story takes a look at three different people who come face to face with their inner demons in three separate ways. The movie highlights Saint Lucian folk stories and music, with most of the dialogue in French Creole. Get your tix at brownpapertickets.com, and come join us for a fun night! Sponsor: @miss_jessies #caribbean #film #HiARTS #uptown #nyc #indiefilm #screening #regional #personal #identity #narratives #storytelling #weLOVEcaribbeanfilm 🇯🇲🇱🇨 #knowyourcaribbean

This piece of history stayed with me. Although it’s not Caribbean history, I have always felt an affinity to our Pacific Island peope. Besides so much of what we live comes from them! From Breadfruit, to certain types of citrus, starfruit/five finger/carambola, Taro/Dasheen, wax apple and so many other plants and flowers.

#Repost @knowyourcaribbean with @use.repost ・・・ On Jan 1st, Haiti became the first free Black republic in the world, the first independent state in the Caribbean and the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. The country where the ultimate dream - to end slavery- was achieved by the very people enslaved themselves. They did it. Everyone loved D’Jango Unchained because it allowed us to delve into our inner most fantasies of inflicting retribution on dutty, greasy slave masters. Every lash @iamjamiefoxx character inflicted made our wildest dreams come true via the big screen. D’Jango may be a fictional character but the Haitian Revolution is real, and heroes like Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines said and did some gangsta shit. What they did was so gangsta that Europe and the USA made sure Haiti paid heavily for demanding to no longer be enslaved. How dare these negroes they said. Nothing but a ‘hoard of ferocious bandits” and led by “Barbarous Chieftains’ who had the audacity. Europe and the USA ensured that the first free black nation would go from the wealthiest nation in the west to the poorest - because Haiti was just too Gangsta. #KnowYourCaribbean #chroniclesofthecaribbeanbadman #haiti #toussaintlouverture #koupetetboulekay #jeanjacquesdessalines #ayiti #haitianrevolution #haitianindependenceday #panafrican https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm5113isBtE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

You don’t know who long I was wondering the Origin if Bim was #bajan tings Bim - From Igbo bé mụ́, or ‘bem’- meaning my place, people, kindred', common nickname for Barbados @withrepost • @knowyourcaribbean Caribbean words and phrases that come from Africa - Part Two! Do you realise that everyday you shout out your ancestors? In our everyday dialogue we are paying homage to our African roots. So where exactly do our words come from? @igr_love @curmiahlisette @fiona758 Nyam - derives from ‘yam’ - meaning to eat - Wolof Big Eye - Igbo - Nigeria Ackee - Akan - Ghana region Ockra - Igbo - Nigeria Bami - Gå Nenen - Godmother - Dahomey Bati - derived from 'Mbassi' - Bantu region Dundus - Albino/White person - derived from Ndundu - Kongo Bubu - stuff in your eye - Central Africa Boodoom ! - derives from 'Burum' - the noise made of something falling - Wolof and Akan Wunna - derives from Unu, meaning 'you' - Igbo Bim - From Igbo bé mụ́, or ‘bem’- meaning my place, people, kindred', common nickname for Barbados 'Man-dem' 'Gyal-dem' - sentence structure derived from Mandinka wording Kaiso/Calypso - derives from Hausa - Bakaito - type of singing with confidence - Nigeria See references below for further reading. Dalphinis, Morgan (1980) African language influences in creoles lexically based on Portuguese, English and French : With special reference to Casamance Kriul, Gambian Krio and St. Lucian Patwa. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. Cassidy, Frederic Gomes; Page, Robert Brock Le (2002). A Dictionary of Jamaican English (2nd ed.). University of the West Indies Press.ISBN 976-640-127-6. The African Lexis in Jamaican: Its Linguistic and Sociohistorical SignificanceJoseph T. Farquharson, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures by Maureen Warner-Lewis Cassidy, Frederic (1986), "Barbadian Creole–possibility and probability", American Speech, 61 (3): 195–205, doi:10.2307/454663 #knowyourcaribbean #caribbeanwordsthatcomefromafrica #hausa #igbo #bajan #wolof #akan #ghana #nigeria #jamaica #hesalop #stlucia #caribbeanhistory #africanhistory #africanlanguage #jamaicanpatois #patois https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIC2EjgIDw/?igshid=3wf4nj5xlfbt

Posted @withrepost • @knowyourcaribbean It’s World book Day and I get asked for book recommendations all the time . So what better day to send you guys some gems worth delving into? A huge thank you to Caribbean historian @grb_jr for curating this list ! Of course there are countless others but this list here is a great start! The Black Jacobins - CLR James (Top Recommendation) Testing the chains - Michael Craton Mastery tyranny and desire - Trevor Burnard (Google Thomas Thistlewood first ) Capitalism and slavery - Eric Williams Reproducing the Caribbean - Juanita de barrios No bond but the law - Diana Paton Colony of citizens and avengers of the new world (two separate books) - Laurent Dubois The Reapers garden - Vincent brown Robin Blackburn’s trilogy on new world slavery The slave ship - Markus reddiker Laboring women - Jennifer Morgan Anything by Catherine hall and Nick Draper - the persons behind the Legacy of Slavery project The problem of freedom - Thomas Holt Moral capital - Chris Leslie brown Crowns of glory, tears of blood (Emilia Giotto da Costa) Please tag and share with your people. Song : Read My Book- Aryn, Savannah & Jayda (via YouTube) @simsstrong #knowyourcaribbean #worldbookday #caribbeanhistoryblackhistory #readabook (at Riverdale, Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwWAv7gCbU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cvqiegir03cu

Slave women braided rice into hair to provide food for their families who were sold