Episodes

  • 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
  • Junkanoo Jam Session Part Two - The Bahamas

    Junkanoo Jam Session Part Two - The Bahamas
    Feb 6 2023

    In our second instalment of the Junkanoo Jam series, we take a look at Junkanoo in the Bahamas.(see Jamaican Junkanoo in part 1) The largest Junkanoo parade in the world, glitzy, glamorous, large and in charge. But what are the fundamentally African roots of Junkanoo in The Bahamas? Let's see where underneath the gold and glitter are sparks of resistance.




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    18 mins
  • Obeah, Mermaids and Magic

    Obeah, Mermaids and Magic
    Jan 20 2023

    Touching on many topics, from how descendants of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean worshipped Mami Wata/ Mama Dlo, danced the 'Calenda' and Bele, and how rain was conjured out of nowhere in the heights of droughts.


    Excerpts from the book 'Obeah and Witchcraft in the West Indies' by Hesketh J Bell.


    Featured Kalinda music by : Red Drum Drumming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMwyhjknOAk


    Bele Music from Martinique by : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslellMtIz8&t=464s


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    52 mins
  • Life in a Slave Market in New Orleans

    Life in a Slave Market in New Orleans
    Jan 20 2023
    A podcast minis ode, extending from our love story series, where enslaved people came from the Caribbean to New Orleans, what was it like in the slave markets. Some things you may never imagine being heard or said.

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    9 mins
  • Junkanoo Jam Session Part One - Jamaica

    Junkanoo Jam Session Part One - Jamaica
    Dec 1 2022

    Junkanoo is an African centred festival found across many areas in the Caribbean, Central America and even parts of the USA. Found specifically during Christmas time, like much of our masquerade it is rooted in resistance, African spiritual and cultural practice and anti-colonial intent. Dying in some areas and flourishing in others. For part one of our Junkanoo Jam Sessions we head to the root of Junkanoo - Jamaica. Here we uncover the history and spiritual significance of a dying Jamaican Christmas time culture.



    Kenneth Bilby Essay:


    https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/84/3-4/article-p179_1.xml?language=en


    Featured Junkanoo music:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owJ_iy_79d8


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    39 mins
  • Bad Gyal Stories - Women in Resistance Post Emancipation

    Bad Gyal Stories - Women in Resistance Post Emancipation
    Oct 31 2022
    Celebrating the unknown and uncelebrated histories of women and resistance in the Caribbean. Emancipation and the apprenticeship period was not a 'lighter' version of enslavement for many as we were made to believe. How did Caribbean women resist? Find out here.

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    23 mins