My Jamaican father, like so many other immigrants from the island, had a longing to return to the Land of

Christianity was introduced to Jamaica with Roman Catholicism through Spanish plunderers. In 1655, the British plundered and Church of England

The word “Kotoko” means porcupine and is a title the Ashanti bestowed upon themselves or anyone they considered to be

Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Asian slum in March 1919. Abrahams was classified

Jamaica was at the forefront of the international campaign against apartheid in South Africa. The first country to declare a

Approximately 81,500 Indians live in Jamaica today, maintaining their own cultural organizations and roots but assimilated into the wider community.