The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
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Coming from the much-loved platform Know Your Caribbean, this podcast is geared entirely to telling the stories of the Caribbean, its history and culture, food, music, and more. Including the fan-favorite Gangsta Stories from the Caribbean. Here to uplift, empower through education in ways that make you feel connected to yourself.
The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
6M ago
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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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
1y ago
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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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
1y ago
Three different stories of how enslaved people in the Caribbean had reached their limits and chose the ultimate revenge. A weighty episode, that hits close to home. How do we feel when the dream of vengeance comes true? Includes graphic material of descriptions of murder.
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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
1y ago
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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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
1y ago
A mini episode to introduce the discussion of Black Mermaids and African Spirituality in the Caribbean
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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
1y ago
What was Carnival like in Martinique in 1887? Or Cuba in 1899? Puerto Rico in 1903? Or Dominica in 1909? What traditions still live on today? What did our ancestors eat, sing, what costumes did they wear?
Learn Carnival's significance in political and social anti colonial resistance. That and so much more !
Hosted by founder of Know Your Caribbean - Fiona Compton
Additional music - Dominica Creole Festival
Martinique Carnival
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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
2y ago
In this episode we discuss the gangsta stories of one of the largest Maroon strongholds to ever exist. 20,000 strong, holding on to ancient African traditions, we show love and tell the stories of the complex legacy of the Maroons of Suriname, some of the most gangsta rebels in Caribbean history.
Featuring our guest Nii Tetteh, the chocolate voice from the Motherland
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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
2y ago
An epic Love Story of Madison Washington and his wife Susan. Madison escapes slavery in Virginia, travels over 1000 miles to freedom, only to return into the belly of the beast to save his wife. In an unbelievable twist of fate, this story is by all means unforgettable.
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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
2y ago
An insight into the history of the Maroons of Dominica, a country with the last Kalinago stronghold, home to Maroon country that was larger than the entire island of Barbados. Stories of resistance and rebellion against enslavement, and the complex dynamics of societies in the Caribbean .
Featured music - The Kalinago National Anthem, as features in the Miss Kalinago pageant 2016, Dominica, performed by the Dominica Kalinago community.
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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast
2y ago
An insight into the complex role of the Church with the Trans Atlantic Slave trade. Its recruitment, and impact in Africa and the Caribbean. Guest from Ghana Nii Tetteh gives insight into Christianity West Africa whilst we dissect the nuances of the very complicated history we have with the Chrstian Fatih.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NXN4pIblLI - Link to our featured music from Trinidad !
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