I just came back from St. Mary in Jamaica about a week ago, and this was at my uncle's set up(wake), i must of danced all night. Lets never forget our roots.
I grew up in St. Thomas parish of Jamaica and I didn’t appreciate this music and knew the significance of it until i was as an adult. This is beautiful African music passed down from the ancestors from the mother land (Africa)
Hi Michael, did you film these musicians by yourselves?? These drummers play in a very similar way to our bèlè drummers in Martinique. You need to see the similarities, it is incredible!! Thanks for your answer. William (UK)
Black people in Venezuela, French Guiana and some states in Brazil play drums very similar to bèlè and kumina, with 2 drums and sticks... There are black communities in Brazil, Gouadeloupe, Honduras and Cuba that uses 2 or 3 horizontal drums too, but with no sticks...
@@thebossman4875 According to SlaveVoyages.org database, 174,000 african people arrived with life in Martinique as slaves: about 50,000 from Bight of Benin, 37,000 from West Central Africa (Congo-Angola-Gabon), 35,000 from unspecified ports, 21,000 from Bight of Biafra, 11,000 from Gold Coast, 9,000 from Senegambia, 4,000 from Windward Coast (Liberia), 3,000 from Sierra Leone, 1,000 from Indian Ocean Coast.
Maroon Trelawny deputy colonel came out and stated what the orginal name of maroon meant wild cattle. He didn't say nothing bout being an African or slave he said we maroons are indigenous to 🇯🇲. This is on youtube. Look it up. This was the time with Mr chin the rally for cockpit country. It had media coverage. Queen ifrica was their and other artists. Maroons from trewlany Was sent to novia Scotia canda and sierra leone west Africa In 1795 by the Queen of England. And they came straight back home to 🇯🇲🇯🇲. Look it up. Pan africans stop trying africanise are culture we are not african. We west indians are indigenous to the americas the American continent. We are the indigenous amerindians throughout americas, we dress up as American Indians every year have are festivals called carnival. This culture is not found anywhere in the east hemisphere except Europe where west indians brand their culture in the wind rush empire 1930-1940s to rebuild dem country when they had world war 1 or 2. Native Africans dont have are culture. Look it up everything I'm saying.
These are arawaks. Mis labelled as maroons. Arawaks from xaymaca like di ppl. They are not African humbre. Maroons are from Jamaica and no where else. This is stated in novia Scotia as Sierra Leone musem. The maroons went to Canada and Africa and came back to home to Jamaica. We are the indigene ppl of xaymaca. Di land of wood and wata
You are a bold face liar Queen Nanny was a woman from Africa tacky was a man from Africa get out of here with your Indian Arawak foolishness long live the philosophies and opinions of Marcus Garvey long live the Rastafarian movement for praising African god Haile Selassie the first once again your Aboriginal Doctrine is a lie Marcus Garvey was right Africa for the Africans home and abroad
I'm African , from the Bakongo tribe and there is no way you can convince me that these people are not Bakongo , the rhythm, the language, dances are so similar to my culture.
I dont give a flying fuck where u from. Dont tell me about my arawak ppl. Go back to africa . Ur a foreginer u wanna tell me about how the ting go. Just because the indgiene americans look a certain way, they have to be African. We go by oral stories, our language is not pidgin an we dont speak Arabic. We speak arawak, patwah, creole. We are amerindian. Do you Africans know about the American history, what do u know about the Americas. The first to be enslaved aka prisoners of war, amerindians of Americas. Dont talk shit. U know nothing of our freedom fighters. Uno cant trick me. U Africans only talk this African translantic shit only wen u leave Africa. Yall Africans ain't talking like this in africa. Yall got books of your tribal history of ur family. None of your family was slaves or ur tribes. We dont have the same , language, culture, traditions just stop lying to my ppl we are not African. These ppl come from u really where is some of ur language in ours. Theirs none. Foreginers wanna tell me about the indians of west. These Africans think they know di West indies go study africa an ask ur tribal chiefs. U foreginer. This is not acceptable. Foreginers dont speak for the americans. Go back to the east hemisphere. U sell out.
trinidad orisha comes from the religion of the yoruba people in Nigeria, very African. kumina originates from the Kongo people, also very African. where do Israelites come into this?
