The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

By: Know Your Caribbean
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  • Summary

  • Coming from the much loved platform Know Your Caribbean, this podcast is geared entirely to telling the stories of the Caribbean, it's history and culture, food, music and more. Including the fan favourite Gangsta Stories from the Caribbean. Here to uplift, empower through education in ways that make you feel connected to yourself. So get to know yourself through Know Your Caribbean.



    Hosted by Fiona Compton with special guests.


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  • Jumbies, Indentured Labour, and Wizards of Saint Vincent

    Jumbies, Indentured Labour, and Wizards of Saint Vincent
    Sep 23 2024

    Continuing of our interpretation of Charles Day's book - Five Years in the West Indies, we head to Saint Vincent to hear a detailed description of an Igbo stilt walker, jumbles, life of indentured labourers and much more about Caribbean customs we still have today,


    See Below for further reading notes :


    https://thevincentian.com/a-brief-historical-overview-of-the-portuguese-in-st-vincent-and-the-grenad-p20809-133.htm#:~:text=Between%201845%20and%201850%2C%20about,only%20one%20or%20two%20years.




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    43 mins
  • Wuk up and Landownership - life in 1850's Barbados

    Wuk up and Landownership - life in 1850's Barbados
    Sep 6 2024

    Reading excerpts of Charles Day's book - Five years the West Indies, this highly racist account of life in the Caribbean unintentionally captures the beauty of Black people in the Caribbean.


    Show notes for references:


    Buckra - buckraNOUNbuckra, buckras

    derogatory US, West Indian

    • A white person, especially a man.
    Origin

    Mid 18th century from Ibibio and Efik (m)bakara ‘European, master’.



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    43 mins
  • The Story of the Soucouyant and the Loogaroo

    The Story of the Soucouyant and the Loogaroo
    Oct 31 2023
    She fall sunder many names, from the Boo Hag in the Carolinas, the Old Higue or Ole Haig in Guyana, Asema in Suriname, Soucouyant in Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, Martinique, Guadeloupe and more, even Louisiana. But who is she? Let's hear some stories about the elusive Soucouyant, closing off the episode with a a powerful story of resistance

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    25 mins

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