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Nine night
Nine Night: The Age Old Ritual for Jamaica’s Dead Journeying to Africa before Burial
There have been proposals calling for Afro-Jamaican funeral practices of nine nights rituals to be considered as a tourism export. The nine night is the eve to the burial of a loved one. It’s a social gathering where friends make merry, eat and drink rum to bid farewell to the departed. It is literally a wake…
