Jamaica is famous for many things for real. Just wish we could make it a home for Jamaicans so they can enjoy it instead of travelling outside same for Most African countries.
" Jamaica has a long history with Africa that goes beyond Ghana, Nigeria, or West Africa" We know 98% of Jamaicans HAVE AFRICAN blood ....SO what is the reason for this video Mr Montego ?
Thanks for your question Mr. Donovan. The point of the video is simply to highlight the high regards Jmca holds for Africa dispite the misplaced resentment, disregard, & ignorance many hold for Jmca as a unifying force & influencial member of the African Diaspora. No one should feel maligned by the video, it is simple to show the country's sentiments toward Africa. Let's take Kenya. When Britain arrested the great Jomo Kenyatta for his freedom fighting role in the Mau Mau wars, it was Jmca that sent a legal team led by our great Dudley Thompson who won his freedom from British prison, allowing him to become president of Kenya in the 1950's. Are you saying there is no value in knowing that? How many in Africa, Jmca, and the world knows that? That's the point of the video Donovan. Hope I answered your question & didn't further offend you. Thanks for watching Donovan.
8:13 you got it backwards. Jamaicans came from African ancestry. They maintain African customs.African cultures lives within Jamaicans. It's the same with every groups in America. Italians, Germans etc. maintained their ancestry heritage .@@bobmontego7328
@@bobmontego7328 Dudley Thompson was not a great man. If only you know the evil that he did to people who were against the PNP party. My mother was one of the persons he tried to destroyed. Some people wore two faces. If only you know all about that devil.
Yes some African leaders listened to Marcus Garvey but he wasn't the definition of African Success or Panafricanism....We are one people...those cultures and influences you mentioned actually came from Africa initially....I was in Jamaica for 3 years and studied an indepth history of my Jamaican family and found out based on factual Jamaican records and a thorough research and found out that Nanny of the Maroons whose portrait is currently on the jamaican $500 bill came before Garvey and was from my country of Ghana and helped Jamaica fight for emancipation against the european authoritarianism and it wasn't just her, Also when you go to Akropong town which is an actual Ghanaian town in Ghana but also used in Jamaica bcos the maroons who fought for Jamaica where all Africans mostly from West Africa that's why when I was in Jamaica I heard Ghanaian names like Kweku, Kofi, Kwame, Cudjoe, etc and all these maroon descendants were indigenous to Jamaica through slavery before Marcus Garvey. Ananse stories is also from Ghana..in my Ghanaian twi language, Ananse means Spider and that's the same folklore by the fire side stories we had growing up in Ghana that transitioned to Jamaica through slavery ...Most indigenous cultures from Jamaica came from West Africa...when it comes to food, Dukunu is also from Ghana its a food from our language locally prepared in Ghana and passed on through slavery and when I saw it in Jamaica, I immediately knew that Jamaicans were my family through years of slavery...There's no black culture from Jamaica that didn't originally come from Africa...How can your mother burrow from you when you came from her??? And everything you have is from her???. Even the history of Rastafarianism never ever came from Jamaica....the word Ras which means leader and Tafari Makonnen was the Emperor of Ethiopia and it was part of their culture to plait hair and keep it naturally long, that culture never started in Jamaica.. it was a pure African culture born and raised in Ethiopia and other areas of Africa and copied by Jamaicans through years of transition after slavery.....the Ras Tafari movement which is an actual name from Emperor Haile Selassie who took over from his father and was seen as a hero, a great leader and supposedly deemed by some Jamaican Rastas as the resurrected christ or the lion of the tribe of Judah, that whole analogy came from Africa,...and the Rasta culture was still practiced in Africa way before Jamaica was born...there were African villages who never heard of Jamaica and practiced that African culture before the rise of Rastafarianism culture in Jamaica....All Jamaica did, was to put a culture that already existed on the world map for recognition during their quest for freedom and wordly recognition, but those cultures already existed in Africa....Anyone who speaks the west African ibo and Twi language from Ghana and Nigeria can hear words from these languages used in the jamaican patois language....words like "unnuh" example "where unuh deh" are from Nigerian ibo dialect mixed with English to produce that phrase...and when I speak my pidgin english from Ghana and Nigeria, I hear our native dialects when a Jamaican speaks patwa...there are soooo many West African indigenous words that were used in the creation of the Jamaican culture...it's no coincidence that when I was studying in Utech, it was officially documented in Jamaican records when you go to their town hall, that over 90% of Jamaican culture came from Africa especially western African roots and that's why I noticed the culture similarities...no African culture burrowed anything from Jamaica, that didn't already exist in Africa. Once again, How can your mother burrow from you when you came from her? And you exist because of her?
After this Epistle of yours, I will state that the child is now in the position to enlighten the Mother. What was hidden from the wise and prudent, now revealed to the babe and Suckling. Jamaica is the awakening, all praise to The True and Living God, the God of Jacob, Father of the Twelve Tribes of Israel [ As he was later called]
@Alp560 Jamaica has never been the light to awakening Africa or the world.... 1. Rastafarians looking up to haile Selassie as the deliverer is a false god and a false belief!!!.Haile Selassie is not the Messiah neither is he the lion of the tribe of Judah...the only way to salvation is Jesus Christ and He is the true lion of the tribe of Judah, not Haile Selassie...Haile Selassie never resurrected from the grave but Jesus Christ did. 2. Also the music of Jamaica(Both Reggae and Dancehall) have not proclaimed the true word of Jesus...Dancehall especially has led to a lot of bloodshed and immoral lifestyle of many of the youth in Jamaica and in the world just like hiphop. The question here is, what shall it benefit us to gain the whole world and lose our salvation? And this is not just about Jamaica but to all nations that claim to be Godly but do not live right with God through their actions and not just mere words...
You sound like a hater. Jamaica is a brand. Jamaica's influence reaches far and wide on the world stage. Jamaicans are mostly descendants of Africa but we owe our achievements to ingenuity, tenacity and determination. You sold your own into slavery. Despite that, the Jamaican descendants of slaves have shaped music, politics and culture across the world. And don't confuse Rastafarians with dread locks. Dead locks existed in a lot of countries around the world, not just Africa. Indians from India had more influence on Rastafari than Africa did. We love mama Africa even though she did not love us. Only Haile Selassie made an effort to provide a place for the displaced children of slaves to return home. Ghana only wants black expats for the resources they can bring to Ghana.
Good insight, but also shows how hard it is for the sick to cure others of a shared illness. All these decades later and Jamaica and Essentially all of Africa still suffer from identical sicknesses… high rates of crime(especially theft, scamming, etc), violence, misogyny, feelings of inferiority about their (hair, skin color, nose shape, etc) phenotypes, disregard for family planning, superstitions, poor longterm planning, etc.
Thank you, Brother Bob. Jamaicans are brothers and sisters of Africa.
And thank you for watching.
Thank you for this information, some of which i did not know. Stay blessed, and keep them coming!! 😊
And thank you too for watching.
Well said Sir
Thanks for watching Sandy. Bless up.
The genesis of Afrobeat is not reggae but is fuji music,highlife mixed with American jazz and funk.
From Ghana
And the genesis of Reggae is Black American music from New Orleans to be specific
Lie!!! That heavy beat is dancehall…
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Reggae Music to the world
Brother 💚💚💚💚🙏🏿
Jamaica is famous for many things for real. Just wish we could make it a home for Jamaicans so they can enjoy it instead of travelling outside same for Most African countries.
Thanks for watching.
When I lived in Ethiopia they were running off all the Rastafarians. East Africa is very different. I recall the famous Mr Marley spent time there
" Jamaica has a long history with Africa that goes beyond Ghana, Nigeria, or West Africa" We know 98% of Jamaicans HAVE AFRICAN blood ....SO what is the reason for this video Mr Montego ?
Not everyone is aware of AFRICAN ANCESTRY throughout the Diaspora. This video is very edifying. Our people's are destroyed through lack of knowledge.
Thanks for your question Mr. Donovan. The point of the video is simply to highlight the high regards Jmca holds for Africa dispite the misplaced resentment, disregard, & ignorance many hold for Jmca as a unifying force & influencial member of the African Diaspora. No one should feel maligned by the video, it is simple to show the country's sentiments toward Africa. Let's take Kenya. When Britain arrested the great Jomo Kenyatta for his freedom fighting role in the Mau Mau wars, it was Jmca that sent a legal team led by our great Dudley Thompson who won his freedom from British prison, allowing him to become president of Kenya in the 1950's. Are you saying there is no value in knowing that? How many in Africa, Jmca, and the world knows that? That's the point of the video Donovan. Hope I answered your question & didn't further offend you. Thanks for watching Donovan.
It's completely asinine that you could ask such a question after listening to the video.
8:13 you got it backwards. Jamaicans came from African ancestry. They maintain African customs.African cultures lives within Jamaicans. It's the same with every groups in America. Italians, Germans etc. maintained their ancestry heritage
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Dudley Thompson was not a great man. If only you know the evil that he did to people who were against the PNP party.
My mother was one of the persons he tried to destroyed. Some people wore two faces.
If only you know all about that devil.
Yes some African leaders listened to Marcus Garvey but he wasn't the definition of African Success or Panafricanism....We are one people...those cultures and influences you mentioned actually came from Africa initially....I was in Jamaica for 3 years and studied an indepth history of my Jamaican family and found out based on factual Jamaican records and a thorough research and found out that Nanny of the Maroons whose portrait is currently on the jamaican $500 bill came before Garvey and was from my country of Ghana and helped Jamaica fight for emancipation against the european authoritarianism and it wasn't just her, Also when you go to Akropong town which is an actual Ghanaian town in Ghana but also used in Jamaica bcos the maroons who fought for Jamaica where all Africans mostly from West Africa that's why when I was in Jamaica I heard Ghanaian names like Kweku, Kofi, Kwame, Cudjoe, etc and all these maroon descendants were indigenous to Jamaica through slavery before Marcus Garvey. Ananse stories is also from Ghana..in my Ghanaian twi language, Ananse means Spider and that's the same folklore by the fire side stories we had growing up in Ghana that transitioned to Jamaica through slavery ...Most indigenous cultures from Jamaica came from West Africa...when it comes to food, Dukunu is also from Ghana its a food from our language locally prepared in Ghana and passed on through slavery and when I saw it in Jamaica, I immediately knew that Jamaicans were my family through years of slavery...There's no black culture from Jamaica that didn't originally come from Africa...How can your mother burrow from you when you came from her??? And everything you have is from her???.
Even the history of Rastafarianism never ever came from Jamaica....the word Ras which means leader and Tafari Makonnen was the Emperor of Ethiopia and it was part of their culture to plait hair and keep it naturally long, that culture never started in Jamaica.. it was a pure African culture born and raised in Ethiopia and other areas of Africa and copied by Jamaicans through years of transition after slavery.....the Ras Tafari movement which is an actual name from Emperor Haile Selassie who took over from his father and was seen as a hero, a great leader and supposedly deemed by some Jamaican Rastas as the resurrected christ or the lion of the tribe of Judah, that whole analogy came from Africa,...and the Rasta culture was still practiced in Africa way before Jamaica was born...there were African villages who never heard of Jamaica and practiced that African culture before the rise of Rastafarianism culture in Jamaica....All Jamaica did, was to put a culture that already existed on the world map for recognition during their quest for freedom and wordly recognition, but those cultures already existed in Africa....Anyone who speaks the west African ibo and Twi language from Ghana and Nigeria can hear words from these languages used in the jamaican patois language....words like "unnuh" example "where unuh deh" are from Nigerian ibo dialect mixed with English to produce that phrase...and when I speak my pidgin english from Ghana and Nigeria, I hear our native dialects when a Jamaican speaks patwa...there are soooo many West African indigenous words that were used in the creation of the Jamaican culture...it's no coincidence that when I was studying in Utech, it was officially documented in Jamaican records when you go to their town hall, that over 90% of Jamaican culture came from Africa especially western African roots and that's why I noticed the culture similarities...no African culture burrowed anything from Jamaica, that didn't already exist in Africa. Once again, How can your mother burrow from you when you came from her? And you exist because of her?
After this Epistle of yours, I will state that the child is now in the position to enlighten the Mother. What was hidden from the wise and prudent, now revealed to the babe and Suckling. Jamaica is the awakening, all praise to The True and Living God, the God of Jacob, Father of the Twelve Tribes of Israel [ As he was later called]
@Alp560 Jamaica has never been the light to awakening Africa or the world....
1. Rastafarians looking up to haile Selassie as the deliverer is a false god and a false belief!!!.Haile Selassie is not the Messiah neither is he the lion of the tribe of Judah...the only way to salvation is Jesus Christ and He is the true lion of the tribe of Judah, not Haile Selassie...Haile Selassie never resurrected from the grave but Jesus Christ did.
2. Also the music of Jamaica(Both Reggae and Dancehall) have not proclaimed the true word of Jesus...Dancehall especially has led to a lot of bloodshed and immoral lifestyle of many of the youth in Jamaica and in the world just like hiphop.
The question here is, what shall it benefit us to gain the whole world and lose our salvation?
And this is not just about Jamaica but to all nations that claim to be Godly but do not live right with God through their actions and not just mere words...
@@Alp560 LMAO!!
Someone is feeling bitter n resentful, is it because jamaican has more positive recognition than where you're from? 😅
You sound like a hater. Jamaica is a brand. Jamaica's influence reaches far and wide on the world stage. Jamaicans are mostly descendants of Africa but we owe our achievements to ingenuity, tenacity and determination. You sold your own into slavery. Despite that, the Jamaican descendants of slaves have shaped music, politics and culture across the world. And don't confuse Rastafarians with dread locks. Dead locks existed in a lot of countries around the world, not just Africa. Indians from India had more influence on Rastafari than Africa did. We love mama Africa even though she did not love us. Only Haile Selassie made an effort to provide a place for the displaced children of slaves to return home. Ghana only wants black expats for the resources they can bring to Ghana.
Good insight, but also shows how hard it is for the sick to cure others of a shared illness. All these decades later and Jamaica and Essentially all of Africa still suffer from identical sicknesses… high rates of crime(especially theft, scamming, etc), violence, misogyny, feelings of inferiority about their (hair, skin color, nose shape, etc) phenotypes, disregard for family planning, superstitions, poor longterm planning, etc.
Just like any other place including the west.
@@prosperousnatasha8153 with meaningful differences in terms of degree of said afflictions.
Jamaica to the world…. No disrespect but a Jamaican is the best blackman one can be in the world