The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

By Know Your Caribbean

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 f

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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast episodes:

September 23, 2024 Jumbies, Indentured Labour, and Wizards of Saint Vincent
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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44min
September 06, 2024Wuk up and Landownership - life in 1850's Barbados
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’.

Music via
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43min
October 31, 2023 The Story of the Soucouyant and the Loogaroo
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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25min
February 06, 2023 Junkanoo Jam Session Part Two - The Bahamas
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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18min
January 20, 2023 Obeah, Mermaids and Magic
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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52min
January 20, 2023 Life in a Slave Market in New Orleans
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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10min
January 17, 2023 Resistance and Revenge in the Caribbean
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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46min
December 01, 2022 Junkanoo Jam Session Part One - Jamaica
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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40min
October 31, 2022 Bad Gyal Stories - Women in Resistance Post Emancipation
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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23min
October 01, 2022 Resistance and Revenge in the Caribbean
Contrary to popular belief, acts of resistance occurred across the Caribbean during the era of slavery. This episode features 4 stories of revenge from two Caribbean islands, an insight into enslaved African spiritual beliefs, and how revenge was a bittersweet response to slavery.
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46min

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