The annual event, held on January 6th by the Accompong Maroons—the descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped the plantations and settled in Jamaica’s mountains ... Richard Currie, Chief of the ...

the historian of Jamaica, the word maroon signifies, among the Spanish Americans, hog-hunter, the woods at that time abounding with the wild boar, and the pursuit of them constituting the chief ...

Island SPACE Caribbean Museum, in partnership with the State of Accompong, announced a historic event featuring a first-ever presentation by a Jamaican Accompong Maroon Chief in the United States.

The Jamaican Maroons trace their lineage to Africans who ... journeyed to Accompong. Welcomed by Chief Richard Currie, Paramount Chief of Accompong, they engaged in a symposium addressing the ...

Buju Banton and Spragga Benz have thrown their support behind Accompong Maroon Chief Richard Currie, in his call for the Jamaican Government to consult with the Maroons in relation to the island ...

In the pantheon of Jamaica’s seven National Heroes, Nanny of the Maroons is the only woman. “Grandie Nanny,” as she is called, a middle-aged, unsmiling woman with cutlass in hand, is commonly ...

“The Government of Jamaica has gone and signed over lands to be mined, when they don’t own those ancestral lands,” said Richard Currie, the current chief of the Maroon people in Cockpit Country.

Queen Nanny, a Jamaican national heroine and a l egendary ... According to Atlanta Black Star, Simms was installed as paramount chief by Maroons from Suriname in a ceremony that was captured ...

The Maroons of Jamaica have always prompted varied reactions ... The apology came 8 days after the anniversary of a slavery rebellion led by Chief Takyi, an enslaved West African from Ghana ...

One of the leaders of the descendants of Jamaica’s Afro-Indigenous people has apologized for helping enforce slavery centuries ago on the Caribbean island. The Maroons were Jamaica’s first ...