African warrior queen comes alive in new opera by Jamaican-British Shirley Thompson

Internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, scholar, cultural activist and film-maker, Shirley J Thompson will present the ...

African and Caribbean literary voices to take centre stage at Jamaica Book Festival’s literary exchange

The Jamaica Book Festival’s inaugural Africa Caribbean Literary Exchange will culminate on Saturday February 28 with a ...
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Storms, solidarity and selective aid: The U.S., Jamaica and the ‘s- -thole’ bias

Residents stand on the wreckage of a house destroyed by Hurricane Melissa in Santa Cruz, Jamaica. In this piece, Edmond W. Davis argues that America’s disaster aid and immigration responses reveal a ...
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West African tradition in the decoration of colonial Jamaican folk pottery

In the early colonial period, Jamaican slaves manufactured pottery that incorporated traditional West African technology with selected European innovations. Recent examination of Afro-Jamaican wares ...