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Roots, 2018, October 2018 - World Reggae

Roots | Queen Nanny

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Irie Magazine | Roots | Queen Nanny
31
Oct

Queen Nanny c.1686 – c.1755 Queen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1686 – c. 1755), National Heroine of Jamaica, was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons. Historical documents refer to her as the “rebels’ old ‘obeah’ woman” but to the Maroons she was revered as a woman of science. Queen Nanny was born into the Asante people in what is today Ghana, […]

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Reggae, 2018, October 2018 - World Reggae

Reggae | Dread & Alive: Nine Night™

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Reggae | Dread & Alive: Nine Night™ 1
31
Oct

Dread & Alive® Nine Night™ Dread & Alive® is a Jamaican-inspired mixed-media series spanning comic books, novels and music created and written by Nicholas Da Silva (founder & editor-in-chief of IRIE) and published by ZOOLOOK. His work with Dread & Alive® meshes cultural fact with fiction while introducing the Maroons of Jamaica, who resisted against […]

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