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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast episodes

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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18 min
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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52 min
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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10 min
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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40 min
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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23 min
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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46 min
September 15, 2022 The History of Black Mermaids in the Caribbean and Southern USA
A mini episode to introduce the discussion of Black Mermaids and African Spirituality in the Caribbean
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15 min
September 12, 2022 What was Carnival like over 100 years 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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1 hr 13 min
April 27, 2022 GANGSTA STORIES - The Suriname Maroons
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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57 min
March 01, 2022 Love Stories of Our Enslaved Ancestors
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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48 min

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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, it's history and culture, food, music and more. Including the fan…