Caribbean
Why Africa and the Caribbean still don’t trade directly
As global trade buckles under rising tariffs and geopolitical turbulence, African and Caribbean nations are being forced to reckon with an unsettling reality: economic dependence is a vulnerability, not a strategy. The latest wave of U.S. tariffs, rooted in Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine, has jolted supply chains and prompted uncomfortable reflection among countries long…
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Largest British shipping firm used enslaved workers in Caribbean after abolition of slavery – report
Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British...
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Why enslaved Africans continue the culture of painting their buildings in blue in the Caribbean
In South Carolina and Georgia, the color blue holds a significant place in the cultural beliefs...
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How African slaves in the Caribbean reinvented their own aphrodisiacs with herbs they came to find
One of the growing cultures in many West African and Caribbean countries is the use of bitter...
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Women ‘Rule’ Over Men on Guna Yala Island
Among the over 300 Islands in the Caribbean lay an Island off the Eastern Coast of Panamá called Guna Yala. A proud bastion of female power, the community has since its founding put premium on women...
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The Caribbean People Who Were On Slave Ships But Never Enslaved
The Garifuna people, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West Africa have always fought for their place, cultural identity and heritage since the 1800s against colonial rule and discrimination. They fought...
