The Growth of Rastafari
Rastafarianism was strongly influenced by Kumina-Revivalism. But Revivalists’ main concerns remained personal salvation and ritual observance. In contrast Rastafarians protested
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Author: Kevin O'Brien Chang
The mysterious Jamaican woman
“JAMAICAN WOMAN love to suffer!” So I’ve heard many men declare, and at times it’s hard to disagree. When we
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An Inexplicable Jamaican Obsession
It’s incredible really. A few years ago Prime Minister Bruce Golding was grilled for half an hour on the BBC on
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #1 Marcus Garvey – Black Champion Of Vision And Destiny
No other Jamaican has had such a profound international impact as Marcus Garvey. In an era that treated the idea
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #2 Bob Marley – Reggae Super Hero
Bob Nesta Marley is the most famous figure this country has produced. (Though Usain Bolt might be usurping him in
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #3 Miss Lou — Mother of Jamaican culture
Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett is the most universally loved personality this nation has ever produced or likely will ever produce,
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #4 Alexander Bustamante – Fearless champion of the people
In 1938 demonstrations swept across the island. The worldwide great depression had made the normally hard life of the Jamaican
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #5 Norman Manley Allrounder of Excellence
For Norman Manley, achievement of excellence was the norm; he was a world class high school athlete, Rhodes scholar, decorated
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #6 Sam Sharpe – Emancipation hero
The outstanding leader of the 1831 Christmas slave revolt, often referred to as the ‘Baptist War’ because of the denomination
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #7 Mary Seacole — Black Woman Pioneer
Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston in 1805 to a Scottish army officer and a free creole woman. Her
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #8 Paul Bogle – Freedom Martyr
By 1865 the American civil war and a severe drought had dramatically increased food costs in Jamaica, while collapsing sugar
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #9 William Knibb – Unacknowledged National Hero?
When the white English missionary William Knibb was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit in 1988, Devon Dick wrote ‘No
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #10 Michael Manley
Why ‘Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans’? Well why not. Fifty years of independence is a long enough time to reach some
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