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History of Rastafari
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The Growth of Rastafari

August 10, 2014 Kevin O'Brien Chang 2 Comments Emperor Haile Selassie, Ethiopia, Ironically Marcus Garvey, Jamaica, Roman Catholic

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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some women love when men beat them
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The mysterious Jamaican woman

August 1, 2014August 1, 2014 Kevin O'Brien Chang 5 Comments

“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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Bruce Golding not in my Cabinet homosexuality in Jamaica
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An Inexplicable Jamaican Obsession

July 22, 2014 Kevin O'Brien Chang 26 Comments BBC, IRAQ, Jamaica Carnival, Mr Golding, Rebecca Schleifer

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

June 22, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 13 Comments Daily Gleaner, Jomo Kenyatta, Marcus Garvey, Political Party, UNIA

No other Jamaican has had such a profound international impact as Marcus Garvey. In an era that treated the idea

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Bob Marley most popular Jamaican best musician from Jamaica
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #2 Bob Marley – Reggae Super Hero

June 15, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 8 Comments Elvis Presley, James Dean, Mention Jamaica, One Love, Peter Tosh

Bob Nesta Marley is the most famous figure this country has produced. (Though Usain Bolt might be usurping him in

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Miss Lou nicest women that ever lived
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #3 Miss Lou — Mother of Jamaican culture

June 8, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 2 Comments Dutty Tough, London, Louise Bennett, Marjorie Whylie, Miss Lou

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

May 31, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 0 Comments Alexander Bustamante, Christened Alexander Clarke, European Jamaica, St William Grant, UNIA

In 1938 demonstrations swept across the island. The worldwide great depression had made the normally hard life of the Jamaican

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Norman manley greatest people that ever lived
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #5 Norman Manley Allrounder of Excellence

May 25, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 3 Comments Jamaica Welfare, Marcus Garvey, Mr Manley, Norman Manley, Theodore Sealy

For Norman Manley, achievement of excellence was the norm; he was a world class high school athlete, Rhodes scholar, decorated

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Samuel Sharp Jamaican hero who he was he
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #6 Sam Sharpe – Emancipation hero

May 17, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 2 Comments Baptist War, British Empire, Montego Bay Baptist, Sam Sharpe, St James

The outstanding leader of the 1831 Christmas slave revolt, often referred to as the ‘Baptist War’ because of the denomination

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Mary Seacole one of the greatest women Jamaican
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #7 Mary Seacole — Black Woman Pioneer

May 9, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 1 Comment Blundell Hall, Crimean War, England, Florence Nightingale, panama

Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston in 1805 to a Scottish army officer and a free creole woman. Her

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Paul Bogle one of the greatest Jamaicans
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #8 Paul Bogle – Freedom Martyr

April 26, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 2 Comments England, Jamaican Legislature, Paul Bogle, Spanish Town, St Thomas

By 1865 the American civil war and a severe drought had dramatically increased food costs in Jamaica, while collapsing sugar

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William Knibb should have been a national hero
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #9 William Knibb – Unacknowledged National Hero?

April 19, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 9 Comments Devon Dick, England, James Phillipo, Sam Sharpe Rebellion, William Black

When the white English missionary William Knibb was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit in 1988, Devon Dick wrote  ‘No

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Michael Manley greatest Jamaicans
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Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans – #10 Michael Manley

April 15, 2014June 19, 2016 Kevin O'Brien Chang 38 Comments Edward Seaga, Michael Manley, Mohamed Ali, Namely Usain Bolt, Prime Minister

Why ‘Top Ten Greatest Jamaicans’? Well why not. Fifty years of independence is a long enough time to reach some

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A New National Hero?
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A New National Hero?

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There are those who argue that the entire concept of national heroes is unnecessary. But the truth is that every

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Reggae Girlz Reach New Heights But Play Waiting Game
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Reggae Girlz Reach New Heights But Play Waiting Game

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Six Things You’d Know If You’re An Authentic Jamaican
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Six Things You’d Know If You’re An Authentic Jamaican

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