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How Jamaica Is Building a Tourism Bridge Between Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America

Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is leading a new Afro-Atlantic tourism partnership linking Angola, Brazil and ...

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 dynamic festival day at the Confucius Institute, University of the West Indies, ...
Afro

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 ...
CNN

Ghanaian Afro-dancehall star Stonebwoy records at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios, inspired to unite the Black diaspora

When Ghanaian Afro-dancehall and reggae star Stonebwoy visited Jamaica earlier this year for the Island Music Conference, he made headlines with an impromptu freestyle alongside Shaggy, Sean Paul and ...
insider.si.edu

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 ...
The Jamaica Observer

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

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, scholar, cultural activist and film-maker, Shirley J Thompson will present the world premiere of her latest Heroines of Opera work, ...