The Maroons | Jamaica's Forgotten Nation
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- We dive deeper into Jamaica's Blue Mountains and get welcomed into the Scotts Hall Maroon Community. Join us for an UNBELIEVABLE day in the Blue Mountains as we explore Maroon culture!
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See Jamaica has more to offer than just the hotels and beaches. Rich history and culture alongside loving people.
Stop always showing the enemy your ways to live, no matter how nice he's or her face might look dont bring in,snake a snake
@@triple3d696 You need help.
Thank you very much, at least there is some sensible comments here, other people just being hateful smh
Loyaltii Ii THANK YOU people tend to not show this side of Jamaica n this IS the REAL Jamaica
Amarillo Burgess I’ve been in Jamaica this past 5 days on vacation and I can assure you Jamaicans are one of the friendliest and helpful people ever.
Great documentary but let’s be clear.... the Maroon culture/ nation has NEVER been forgotten in JA!
His research is not valid don't listen to him he lies 😡
Let's be honest, those who live outside maroon communities only know that they are runaway slaves, nanny, the abeng and jerk seasoning. Most don't even maroon patios is a whole other level than the widely spoken one; that is why some don't want to acknowledge it as a second language or dialect but "broken english".
Thanks for clearing that up 👊🏾🇯🇲
Thank you and how are they forgotten with even a road and town named after them.
I never heard of them, but I’m glad I stumbled upon this video. I feel as brown people we need to do better as a whole. I never new there were decedents of Africans in Jamaica!!! My mind is blown right now.
Proud to say that my grandmother, 105 years of age...still alive is a maroon descendant...Portland Maroon's
Amazing!
Ahhh what's her surname? My maternal family is portland maroon also ❤️
Outstanding!!! Big Ups to Maroon Granny the Nonagenarian :D !
Buff bay❤
Wow, what a blessing.
These white dudes going places I’ve never been on my own island 😂
know how u feel
😂😂😂
Lol dwl same thing me seh too
Rightt😭
Ikr😂
I’m Ghanaian 🇬🇭and I understand what the woman said 😮😮😮I got goosebumps all over my body, thus my language “Twi” the right pronunciation is “Onyankopon” wow 😯 I’m still in shock!
That is so cool!!!
Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
Jamaicans were primarily sold into slavery from Ghana and Nigeria. We are Ghana and Nigerian and a lot from India and Ireland as well. Small portions from Chinese(Hakka descent), Jewish and middle eastern but they’re weren’t enslaved. In order the people enslaved: Arawak groups, African, Irish, Indian(they made a large impact secondly after African culture, Chinese). Jewish and Middle eastern and German I think came a little after slave trade ended.
Its one big family of us we just spreaded everywhere lol im not surprised if we are all distinct cousins
Check out Jamaican folklorist Miss Lou, (Louise Bennett) talk about "TWI".
I am a Ghanaian. And I have fallen in love with their culture. I feel this great connection with the Maroon people. One Love.
This is a tear jerker for me a Ghanaian... Most of the terms used are exactly Akan and Hausa mixed... distorted somehow but I understand it. Eg. Abeng is same horn we use
Andrew Osei bro we need to go there. They are our own.
Dumauch D-MASK yes we are your own. I’m a proud maroon and also a proud descendant of Africa. I’m a daughter of the soil.
Oh wow. One love 🇯🇲
😍😍😍
One of their communities, Accampong, is named after an Akan surname
I am from Scotts Hall. The colonel Rudolph Pink is my cousin. I have ALWAYS been proud of my heritage
+Norma Miller awesome! Colonel Pink is the man!!
norma miller please tell your cousin only way to preserve what they have is to block foreigners it sounds wrong but history always repeats itself
Norma Miller I would love to go visit!!!! I'm hoping the B&B is up and running by now!!! Seems like a great place for healing and meditation!!
Sean Moonshine The Most High is against ALL religions. Religion goes back to Latin word, "religio", which means to hold back or restrain. To hold back from what? It was designed to hold back the masses from the actual truth of the scriptures. Look at the word "JewISH." The ish is a suffix that means to pertain to or to be like. Those people that's claiming to be Jews in Israel today aren't the biblical Jews of the scriptures. They're trying to pertain to or act like the biblical Jews/Israelites. That's one of the biggest lies ever told. Their biblical name is Edom..
In 1952, the second president of Egypt, acknowledged that those imposters in Israel today aren't the biblical Jews.
"You will never be able to live here in peace, because you left here black but came back white. We don’t accept you!” -Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt leader 1954 - 1970)
If the Most High say a nation of people are going to pay, then it's going to happen. It's nothing you nor myself can do about it. Look at my people today, we are still paying this very day from our forefathers disobeying the Most High's laws, statutes, & commandments. That's the true reason why the so-called white man took our people down. I'm talking about the Negroes, Latinos, Hispanics, & Native Americans. Those people make up the 12 Lost Tribes of Israel. We're His chosen people & we are paying for our forefathers' mistakes, so just think about what He's going to do the people that oppressed & murdered His chosen people.
Isaiah 14:21 "21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities."
Lamentations 4:22 "22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins."
That's why the world is waking up to what race of people are truly & purposely destroying the earth, starting with the international banking families. I guarantee the banking elites of this world know that these Bible prophecies are true. That's why they're trying to setup their NWO agenda. They want to upset bible prophecy, but it's not going to happen..
If I want to visit, how do I get there? any accommodation there? I am from Ghana..I wanna experience these people too.
Honestly, the similiarities between the maroons of jamaica and the akan of ghana is so striking. The Asantes(the majority akan group) in Ghana gave the british a hell of a time. Fought 4 wars, refusing to surrender. The maroons also resisting the british and being the first jamaican group to obtain independence. The stubborness and fight is in the blood. Clearly, the kromanti language and twi are similar. Truly descendants of the Akans.
These guys are part of my family, they are Ghanaians from West Africa. The Ashanti tribe to be specific, we also call the almighty God Nyankopong. Big ups family!
Respect mi family
Truly Ghanaians. This fishing method plus the small rivers brings my childhood memories back. So innocence and loved the rural growing up in eastern region on the akuapem mountains.
Most are akans but many came from Kongo too
@@str88moneymovement43 erm well from wat i was taught our ancestors (slaves) were from West Africa...i thought Congo/Kongo was Central Africa or is it a different Country I dont know of?
@@carsade well you have to overstand the kingdom of Kongo was situaded in west central Afraka stretching from northern Angola, western Kongo Kinshasa aka DRC and Kongo Brazzaville aka ROC.
When people hear Kongo they think of the modern nation in central Afraka which was colonised by Belgium because its the biggest country in sub Sahara Afraka and have been through the worse genocide.
So when I said Kongo was talking about the kingdom of Kongo and not the current nations.
Lastly we have to remember Jamaica was not always controlled by the English but the Spanish too, these European nations brought enslaved Afrakans from the gold coast all the way down to west central Afraka.
Jamaica is a beautiful island with a lot of history. Jamaican people are blessed, creative and strong
That's because some are Africans n some from the tribe judah it was badmind African who sold us onto our enemy and are now pretending to be our people .those african looking jake will not be able to hide from the elect
@@jbilly7859 But remember, Judah sinned, they worshipped false god's and sinned against The Most High, hence the warning and curse of Deuteronomy 28, which was fore written.
@@hotstepper8420 like i stated you Africans cant hide in lion garments from the elect ..hotstepper for who 🤐
CBaby your positive words are like sunshine! Let the negativity in this comments section DEVOUR the negativity who are weak people!
Cbaby thanks much for saying that, i'm really humbled and appreciated.
Jamaica is such a beautiful and blessed place.
Tell me this you'll was never a slave here?.
@@bettyboop2112Does he have to be a slave to say that..?
The maroon are very respected in jamaica
And they are not forgotten, hate the title
I thought they was guard dogs for the British.
@@amon-recrosby7930 lol they were just escaped slaves that went to live in the mountains didn’t come back to fight for the people
Regarded with admiration by those unaware of their involvement in colonization, these individuals have overstayed their welcome in 2024. We have grown tired of these individuals who acted as watch dogs and slave catchers. Their history only serves to emphasize the self-serving nature that continues to burden Jamaica.
false@@beatrice123ful
How amazing! I’m Nicaraguan and I’ve heard my grandfather praise Nyankipong before. Our caribbean side of Nicaragua has Jamaican roots from the 1700s where the British ruled us both at one point. This is so interesting to me. Wow!
Nyankopong is the Akan(twi) name for God
Wow you are one of us an Akan welcome home
fascinating!!! i didn't know that fact--thank you for sharing
Fascinating!! Maroons must remain autonomous and no mining to that region. Save Jamaica!!!
Being a fellow Jamaican seeing this just make me tear up, this is what true independence is
Jamaica should not give away the secrets of the mountain.
Jamaicans are not worried. It is the most mountainous of any islands with the most rugged terrain. Trust me...this is only a spec.
I agree! Exactly. Because the next thing you know.....
Michelle don’t have to be worried for danger to exist 😉
they are not worried bc they are gery violent
The Lighthouse no. Because “it’s al peace and love now“ But we are watching them closely all over the world. Younger generations seem to be ready to abandon their evil ways.
OMG 11:29 did I hear a word Nyankinpong, it makes me cry.
Nyankopon is an akan or let me say Ashanti word meaning Almighty God.
The Maroons are the direct descendants of the Asante ( Ashanti) people, who were taken away from modern day Ghana.
Maximum respect and love from Asante land.
Yes!! Such a cool cultural heritage :)
The maroons should always be remember for what they really were . Traitors. They sided with the British and helped to return runaway slaves keeping slavery alive. They captured deacon Paul Bogle a true hero and turn him over to EYRE who later
@@EatAroundNewYork really?
Fanti people
@@EatAroundNewYork There were different groups of Maroons. Some sided with the enemy but not all. The ones that turned in the great Paul Bogle were the Moore Town Maroons who previously had fought for the British.
My heart is filled with joy seeing my Akan people transformed as maroons but they didn't loose all the Twi language of the Akans. "Nyankonpo"= the almighty God, "Aben"= ivory horn specifically in Ghana 🇬🇭. 😅 would really like to visit them. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽🇬🇭
MissBabyloved ... go visit, you will definitely be welcomed. Bless up and one love!
Yes sister. Next year I’m going to visit our people
@@africasfinest52 Many Jamaicans like myself will be visiting Ghana and west Afrika very soon.
I am Ghanaian, when the woman said Nyankopong it sent chills down my spine
2👍payeton
They were from Ghana 🇬🇭 the leader was woman named Nanny who is one of our national hero.
Ok
aww sending love from Jamaica!
I am beaming proud. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 My country. My people. #standfirm
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
My children 🇬🇭
I am Haitian there's no possible way I can forget about the maroon ,I fact bookman was one of the maroon leader that came to haiti and said let ,do it ,first and foremost he from Jamaica, he started the revolt in a they called bois caiman in haiti in the year 1791.!!!!!!##
Serge Baron so why my people don't like haiti if bookman was jamaican??
qbathompson 14 because for a while people wasn't interested in Haitian history that was purpose to deny are achievement.
qbathompson 14 after defeated the strongest military power there was then by Free BLACK SLAVES, definitely we had a price to pay for, countries mainly USA, France, British, and Canada conspired against us to never let us rise again, this is one the reason US invaded us in 1915 to changed our constitutions in their favor and started installing their puppets
Serge Baron ... yes Jamaican Maroons and Haitian Maroons are one blood
Bless up to the original freedom fighters.
qbathompson 14 is simple the white man way is devided and conquer that's Bob Marley wrote a song about Africa unite.
don't go to people's country and spread misconceptions about them. The Maroons are not a forgotten people they are celebrated and honored without end in Jamaica and are taught about as we draw pride and strength from them and their teachings. how dare you title the video Jamaica's forgotten nation. They live in solitude which is one of the characteristics of the maroon people is to live in a natural way. Nobody will go up there and force them to assimilate like white people often do. That is the beauty of Jamaica there is individual and national pride. Focus on the forgotten nations you never learnt about in your pwn history books there is so much to find (especially the ones that your people massacred and erased from the anals of history.) I have maroon ancestry I would know.
Dann right
the world needs to celebrate them.
"let your light so shine among men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in heaven"
Truth not forgotten maroon runs in my blood my great grandather on my moms side a maroon....and cuban african ancestry!
I thought the same lol, ‘forgotten’?!
Dani I agree! I was taken aback by that title as well. I know that they are not forgotten because we are taught in schools about the maroons and their importance in our history. They viewed with pride and respect in the wider Jamaican society. There are also many tv shows and documentaries done locally and shown on local tv. I appreciate that others are learning about them but they are by no means forgotten.
They come with friendly smile then the problems!
What problems?
My grandmother came from a long line of maroons my grandpa (who she married) was Taino and indian😍
the british are back to make a documentary! Beware my african brothers and sisters!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
its a history lesson
To be aware is to be alive
😂😂😂😂
I don't think they're British lol
Maroon culture has never been forgetting. I grew up knowing I'm a decedent of maroons from St ann areas❤️ however, I was not taught In-depth about our history. Because they left the compounds
VAGABONDS: Please stop calling my people "slaves". This was/is not their BE-ing. They were/are respectable and fierce Warriors and indigenous souls. Please bring referring to us as such. Otherwise, I appreciate the beauty that you captured of the people and of the land.
They're not ur people fam lol
@@Ijaf98 if they're not " OUR "people then the OP is not your "FAM " dummy
@@idesireit31 fam... Bite me lol
Truly - we were not slaves but enslaved; a very important distinction.
@@sojourn4life648 Someone that is a slave does not need to be enslaved.
I'm a native to Jamaica but I've never been to any of the Maroon Towns here. I will definitely check them out.
Visit Accompong.
Me too I read the young warriors in high school
Did you not go to school in Jamaica we have been thought this since grade three and has even visited two !aroon villages on school trips one of them being this very one
Ghana and Jamaica must establish an intercultural program. The Jamaicans are Akans with names like Nanny(Nana), Cudjoe, Quao, Tacky etc.
Cola nuts are called Bese in both places, the staple cornmeal is called Dokunu, and the Akye tree is called Akee.
Not all jamaicans come from ghana tho i have both afro jamaican and indo jamaican in me but yes i agree
@@yrgmustard3635 I agree 100% Most Jamaican are not from Ghana.
Hmmm not all Jamaicans are from Africa we have all ethnicities not only people of African descent/black...Jamaica has chinese,Japanese,Lebanese, East Indians,Germans Even whites and etc and they're all born and raised in Jamaica..And yes i agree most of jamaica's population is black/Of African descent.Like Africans thinks that Africa is the only continent! Like Wooah!
@@Lifestylewithjada No one claimed all Jamaicans are Africans. I was commenting specifically about the subject of the video - maroon culture and language.
@@NanaKNOwusu right. Most of jamaica is of african descent.The issue here is alot of you hate your blacknes, and go out of your way to claim everything except what you are.
I’m Jamaican (born and raised in Kingston) and I found out that I’m from the marooon tribe from my parents but not much info on who they were. I just want to thank you for this video. I learned a lot of who I am and where I’m really from.
This is so cool to hear Jelisha! Thank you for this comment
Dear, just know the maroon people aren't forgotten. Title a spread big lie
Wish my history class in school was this entertaining
Run The Atlas Do study abroad in College to get this excitement. I went to Ghana and it was so much fun
None of these people have acne or discoloration 😭
Yeah, they probably just wash their face normally.
@@carboy101 proper, healthy eating is key too ofc.
Those fruits that are so natural, no chemicals, just pick, wash it, eat it! we buy them they pick them-their diet looks colourful and nutricous and they are richer than most in other countries as they do not pay for fruit-or natural remedies-they are surrounded by it!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 look at me struggling
Stop buying all those chemicals seeing in an ad that will ruin your skin...and eat good food... Thats the only way
I am a maroon from Surinam. I love to see this. It's all the same!
History shows the Caucasian comes in humble and leaves with your land and culture...🤔
History does indeed. Hence why many put up a guard. Humans learn to trust and distrust. Some bad apples make it a challenge for those with good intention.
Mark Watson stop trolling, you aren’t black.
prince maahes Narrated by the colonizers.
prince maahes b
Complete historical fact..
No one here can refute that
Yea Mon 🤗☝🏼 Thanks for sharing ☝🏼 blessings from a Caribbean neighbor Canóvanas Puerto Rico 🙏🏼🇵🇷🇺🇸
They shouldn't be sharing secrets now .
Darnell Begleri That’s no longer a secret. It’s written in many books. The secrete they now have would not be shared. These people are much smarter.
Darnell Begleri to late. I have a thing for them
exactly bro... they aint learned by now this devil cant be trusted .... even when he doesnt mean any harm "his people" will find a way to utilize his research...
@@nahshonyisrael9688 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯💯💯
Them obeah you 🤣
Their accents are so beautiful! I'm low-key jealous of Jamaican speech.
Visit ja
Good and stick to your own speech and accent
@@jycogente7521 what's up with you..
@@no.5179 hes just jelly bc he dont have good accent like us ;)
This is maroon speech dear, their patois is far different from the island wide patois everyone speaks. Cause the maroon patois have some words in Akan
It's so weird that while watching this video goosebumps were killing me. Proud to be a Jamaican
You need to come to Ghana....you will be amazed at the similarities we have with the Maroons and Jamaicans ....Nyankimpong or Nyakropong (as we say it) means God or almighty here too...Abeng also means horn down here!!!!
Yes bro we are related
Yes love they are our people indeed! 🇬🇭
that makes alot of sense.
So true man. The Maroons are believed to come from Ghana, the Akan tribe.
Did you not know Jamaicans are mostly from Ghana, Africa. That's not a surprise, it's our motherland. We must be careful though. Be very aware.
Nice short documentary.The music does not fit the vibe tho. Should have used traditional Maroon, Jamaican or African music keep it close to the roots.
I agree. This isn't swimming with dolphins, this very important Jamaican history
Thank you sister.
totaly agree the music they use is modern crabshit-elctro and the channel itself is a one of those hipster-tourist-travel channels and it maybe the first documentary with a interesting content they made! I suggest I-Maroon with Mi Salt...
KillaManYaro_FMJ
Exactly they should put maroon music instead
shoulda had more islandy, raggae type music
This is so beautiful. I couldn't imagine not being Jamaican 🇯🇲
It’s just a pity that outsiders have to come in and show us the beauty of our when will Jamaica 🇯🇲 see how beautiful and blessed our country is
Exactly *Tinker Bell* .....👌
Some of us too busy a run down material things ,so we dont have time to know that these ppl is still around
I think your forgetting some things of the maroon culture are not and WONT be shown to outsider. The maroons also have their own patwa which is COMPLETELY different from the island wide spoken dialect
I’m a maroon alive and bloodclaut well. Nanny of the maroon lives in me because I am the ancestors!
My Great Great Grandmother was a Maroon! She is a legend in my family. God bless you Nana
Ghanaians are Jamaicans.
Jamaican are Ghanaians.
Wow wow the similarities with the maroons language and the Akan language is just amazing.
@6:46 He says "Maroon pickney", not "Maroon picnic". Pickney is the Jamaican patois name for a child. So he is literally referring to a Maroon child, not a picnic.
Yes i knew he said pickney and wondered why the subtitle said picnic. If you want a good laugh look at any european translation of patwah when we swear.
Picnic, Pickney are the same route word. Back in slave time the whites would say we are going to have a picnic which was on the same day they sell blacks. But due to language difference of the slaves, the word picnic was then pronounced pickney.
@@katarasojohn8265 Interesting. Thankhs for sharing that piece of history 🤔.
@@katarasojohn8265 "Pickney" is the short form of the word we use for "child" in Jamaican Patwa. The long form is "pickaninny." We add "dem" to it to make it plural, "children."
In west pidgin (creo) ,we say "pikin". To mean "child"
Children - "pikin dem, or them. Pick your spelling.
i think your intention here was honorable appreciate your exploration and exposure of the beauty of Maroon culture. Nicely shot and edited too.
I heard Nyankopong meaning God Which is twi language from Ghana. These people re Ashantis from Ghana no doubt
Enoch Adjei yup, the Akan
Enoch Adjei most of us Jamaicans originated from west Africa...
They are ashanti. Only other african ashantis were allowed to join them because a non ashanti could not take the ashanti blood oath. Women from other tribes were allowed in because of a shortage of women in the maroon communities
They are AKan but they are more Fanti than Ashanti They were mostly from Abanzi and Koromantee sectin f the central region
@@Atlas24gh Enoch Adjei
Enoch Adjei
They are not Asante because you hear a few akan words.They are from all over West Africa.My research point to Fulani as Majority.Who can be found everywhere in West Africa even Northern Ghana.
"the english with their big feet couldn't get to us" ha ha ha very funny. Good use of drones
+Steven Cassidy "In a dem big shoes"
Maroon “pickney” not picnic. Pickney means child.
You says pickney means child,will got to know that maroon means a dark color red.God bless 💞.
Yeah that's an American INDIAN term, piccaninny in north America and pickney in the West indies used by west INDIANS 💯🏹
It’s also the slave master terminology for black children.!
@@peace3087 well now you all can’t hate on Jamaicans because you know where we originated from. #ghana, chad, Nigeria and on wards.
Every person of jamaican parentage knows what that means.
These guys are Akans of Ghana abeng is horn in twi. Their ancestors may have been taken from kormanteng and Abanzi in the central region of Ghana. To be specific they are Fantis. Very stubborn people. The Akans lived under strict military structures. Read about the Akans of Ghana and you would know it. An Akan would never live under any oppressor they would rebel.
konkonbishl I would say the Fantis more so went to Dutch Guyana Suriname. Since the Dutch were aligned with Asante and Fante with the British.
There is a St.Lucian tourist officer with the name Robert Yaw.A typical Ghanaian name.But go to Suriname and will find many things Akan..Both Ashanti and Fanti slaves made their way to Jamaica as history says.
Mark Richardson ..Well the Maroon people present a nice friendly image in this video .Ambassedors for their Culture and Country..They have my full respect..But ur comments have the reverse effect,Along with some of the other comments made on here.. such an shame..
konkonbishl That's why most of us were sent here can't go anywhere.
konkonbishl yes we are a stubborn people and proud of it. That is how we survived.
Living off the land; the way it was and should be with Almighty God as our provider.
Enjoy it long as you can. One of the Jamaican worker at the company told me he is sceptical about the Chinese influence in Jamaica.
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Sigh, dem all a tek ova certain parts of Africa
We should be mire than skeptical.
First independant People in the entire so called new world.Even before Haiti.
TRIBUNAL 1 that is incorrect lol. ..
No one else freed themselves before the maroons.Facts!.."Rasta in Resistance" by:Horace Campbell
"first independent people" is a vague statement but then you got spacific when you mentioned Haiti, which is the first black independent nation. ..
I was always Specific and thats why I said People and not nation and I did not mention Toussaint or Dessalines accomplishments.
hmm 🤔 curious. .. then why mention Haiti at all?
mi nuh racist at all but mi nuh believe inna letting ppl from outside come learn wi culture like that because that is what happened and they came to invade and keep us in a mental slavery to this day. The agenda is to deep for me to write it here but teach our youth first. Self Reliance. no hate here just dig deep into african history and our encounters with Europeans and youll ovastand. #blessedlovepeaveandlove.
Dwayne Thompson are u a maroon?
Dwayne Thompson 🙄 Some black people are only interested in "getting my money" and "getting my Benz", "getting gyal" and having kids. I mean people certain people of Jamaican decent or black Americans.
Meanwhile, other cultures have a real life plan, build communities / businesses and know how to interact with others.
Meanwhile we (as a whole) are me me me me and let's bun a lickle spliff. FFS!!! 😒
You guys (in Jamaica) need a system like Qatar, where people work their contract then have to leave. If the government is corrupt, you need to find a way to get rid of it. Easier said than done. 😔
I've never understood why richer countries in Africa don't invest in raising Jamaica (and the Carribean) up, if we originate from there. It makes no sense. 😐
Surely Jamaica could be exporting natural remedies and setting up those little health shops (I'm other countries) like Chinese people do. 🤔 Don't limit yourself by only opening a shop that sells Jamaican food to the 10% of the population, that can't afford to buy imported food anyway. I don't have a clue about business, but I know that route won't get you far... You have to appeal to more people.
Kinda like... Do all that food ish, but have a post office counter in there as well. 🤔 Sell cleaning products as well. Envelopes.
I don't understand why Indian and Chinese people can do this, but black people can't, when Africa is a frigging continent not just a country and it's not like a land mass with flies crawling out of kids mouths, like we're lead to believe. 😒
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Aaaaaaagghhh rant over.
The guy in the shop near me, knows what I mean. He's from Jamaica and even he said this is why black businesses don't get anywhere. It's not just because Chinese and Indian people have better contacts and infrastructure.
Sorry if my comments made anyway angry 😳
I agree with you 100, my grandmother is from the maroons, who's parents went to Manchester and Clarendon, I was always interested in the maroons before I found out only 2017 about the natural connection, I'm in my 60s, but they don't make it possible for us to know and visit these areas, but make it easy for the white man, do they teach this to the Jamaican people or even school children? .
Gwendolyn Russell sad isn’t it
its time for all that to change.
love is the only way.
I went there with my Jamaican mom.
Those apples are in alot of food in Jamaica and are white .
And are the best selling fruit in Jamaica.
The Jamaican maroons are the home of food and fruits in the Caribbean.
abeng-horn
nyankopong-God
both Ghanaian Twi Language
Bless Up Africa
Akan, it could be Fanti
The way of living ( Cooking , hunting ,fishing, eating) gardening is similar to my place in the South Pacific. I think the Maroon's live the same way we the dark skinned South Pacific Islanders called the MELANESIANs live.
I will visit this place one day when I save up enough money for a Vacation.
The fruit that you're eating, we called it ' NAKAVIKA ' in my native language in the Pacific.
Otahiti apples.
My sister is Jamaican and she would love this video it such a beautiful place with beautiful people.
I respect them because at least they still respect and admire there African heritage unlike many of the other Caribbeans and African Americans that would die to be apart of another people's other than their own!
That’s what happen when you brutalize a race of people to forget their names, history and culture. You’ve succeeded in your quest to brainwash us now you laugh at us. The table will turn😌 by the way not all of us want to be apart of this brain dead culture, some of us are actually woke now...
Yes!!!!!!!! A million time
Sosa Q what do you expect, they live a mountain life, with out the influence of white supremacy, so of course they are going to be proud of their CULTURE, because it's all they know.
Thats partly because some blame the Africans allowing them to be taken as some Africans were actually given into slavery by there own people, also if they do not know where they are from how can they maintain a culture they have little to no knowledge of... The Americas is a melting pot of different races and cultures. It will be difficult especially for descendants of slaves to identify with their ancestors especially due to all the mixing and also the predominant white or European culture in US. Furthermore the Chinese and Indians who came to the Caribbean also impact or influence our culture, hence its more difficult to make claim to 'African culture'. West Africa is made up of different African countries who also have their individual cultures, i think that too makes it more difficult for people to try and make claims when they have no idea what part of the world they descended from.
The maroons are unique in the sense that they escaped slavery and managed to keep some of their culture in tact... Maroons i think, would also be a combination of Africans from different part of West Africa so u wud find bits of Nigerian, Ghanaian etc in their way of life with few influences from Europe.
Sosa Q that’s why I love being Jamaican, we stay true to ourselves doesn’t matter the skin tone or the features u have. A rich culture
the ancestral energy should be really strong there!
Debbie Marquis indeed
6:15 "heading into the forest" nah bredda "we a guh ina di bush"
Same suh😂😂😂😂😂
ahh Jamaica my beautiful homeland .
MY BRAVE AFRICAN MUSLIM WARRIOR!
not muslim idiot , Jamaicans are Israelites.
Just Africans.😎
+Jules Cherubin they aren't Israelites u idiot, they are black!!
omg they found it, there goes the neighborhood
Humble and and happy. The simplest life is the best way of life
Great documentary BUT we gotta stop letting these people in and teaching them our culture. We haven’t learned anything from our history...
London Stax was thinking the same thing
Dead Ass Serious
I so agree! Watching this, These same people have called us savages, stupid, and degrade us in the comforts of their own. But yet”....will use, steal, and glorify in the US...for top dollar! It’s called “ Hipster Culture” gentrification......this is big business. They take all the credit and definitely the all mighty dollar. It’s Sad. We as people of color and of poor economic and social background suffer on both ends. History is repeating it self everyday.
I agree with you .. sad but true
These reasoning for this statement is escaping me...
Thank you for sharing this with with us! This was beautiful!
Indigo crystal born and live in uk , both parents from Jamaica everyone says I am maroon descent after watching this Imi feel a deep spiritual connection Warrior energy this is amazing I have to visit there for spiritual enlightenment for my soul x
There's so much to learn about, see and do in Jamaica, thanks for showing that so well +vagabrothers.
very interesting these guys speak Asante twi..... nyankopon which means almighty God..... aben meaning horn and it has the same uses as in Ashanti history..... I will visit these guys
Nana Akwasi Ofori-Frimpong ...the Maroons are straight lynage from the Ashanti Tribe
That's why they say that Jamaicans are so violent because the Asante tribe was one of the most violent tribe so it's in our genetics
Maroons fought so hard for their freedom the crown,left them to rule themselves because they were terrific fighters.
We too nice. Always letting them in and then they know how to use what we show them against us.
Jahyna you are in a panic these Dark skinned Warriors have set their traps-watch the documentary more closely next time.
You know in Africa, they priests came first with the Bible, n we knelt down, closed our eyes to pray.
When we opened our eyes, there was gun pointed at us.
SELASSIE I GOD KNOW!
Wow thank you Scotts Hall Maroons for sharing your culture with us! Utterly fascinating to watch. And of course to you guys for documenting so well.
Your stupidity and ignorance are epic. I praise Holy Abba Elohim / His Son Yashaya that they've well blessed, protected, and kept these my fellow Hebrew African Jamaican Scotts Hall Community Maroon descendant warrior brothers and sisters clearly well tightly unified (something we blacks in the USA/everywhere else worldwide to our detriment have yet to do / cannot claim) after centuries of resisting white European slavery and viscious racist control to still have, maintain, respect, protect and keep their land, way of natural healthy life environment, possess and control their own land, community, and destiny living away and separate from the white man's murderous racism, greed, theft, warmongering diabolical need to take everything never belonging to them. If anyone is an indecent and foolish "Nigga", it's you given your lack of understanding and insight. If the Jamaican Maroons wish to show their way of life, culture and also consider allowing and well-controlling visitors' tours for their own startup community business financial profit, that is their own right and the business of their community.
My only recommendation is that the Maroon brothers and sisters be very, very careful to entirely learn and well know Jamaica Island government laws originally established by, founded and based on white European British law and also understand that the UK and white people in general still heavily control black Jamaican politicians, still control and own the government, control school system, own the great overwhelming and most profitable private sector commercial and economic development tourism businesses, most beautiful and expensive residential/vacation beach land and homes, and the devils are certainly not incapable of finding and determining Jamaica's high hills natural countryside profitable and long ripe for takeover.
This is what the Jamaican Maroons need to immediately realize and be smart enough to well avoid via legal prevention, if possible, because the minute any white men or white women see the Maroon's community lands as not only beautiful, but both very desirable for residential living and very profitable businesses, the whites will quickly engage their leashed and owned so-called "black elite" Jamaican government "Nigga" coons whose pockets and bank accounts they'll increase to well assist them in deceptive communication and negotiations with the Maroons ultimately to disinfranchise, move them out, and take over their community and natural lands.
World On A Whim Next time,
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I'm a Jamaican and it's so beautiful that I could learn so much in this video...tbh I thought all the full maroons died years ago...so this was a big surprise to me! Thank you so much!
I am so thankful to be a Maroon even though I have never been to Maroon town my grandma was a queen but they are just showing what they want to show if u not a Maroon u will never know
Thkx guys for doing such a great job with this video... Sometimes we as Jamaicans ourselves don't appreciate the beautiful culture we have... lovely awesome job 👍
+Candi Cain thank you Candi!! Where in Jamaica are you from?? We loved it there :)
vagabrothers ...I'm frm Spanish Town, the original country capital 😉... Loved that u guys enjoyed the island. Pity u couldn't get the under water footage of the sunken city, it's beautifully eerie
+Randi Kaylisia formerly Candi Cain hopefully next time!! We got some great underwater footage in the next episode from the Blue Lagoon
vagabrothers Niceee... I know that's gonna be awesome. Blue Lagoon is gorg...
Randi Kaylisia formerly Candi C hi
Jamaica land of my birth 🇯🇲 any where I go I can’t forget my roots and African blood !!!
The opening clip of the guy peeling the coconut with his teeth, OMG memories of my dad telling me stories of when he grew up seeing other men do this. Made me laugh.
VB videos are always visually stunning. Jamaican culture is rich, vibrant, and magical. Looking forward to visiting one day!
Kadiyah Lodge Garden of Eden Queen...Non GMO in there. pureness. see that Black beautifully enriched Skin. Yes.
Yep, the Maroons are the foundation of Jamaica....they fought 80yrs for their freedom and achieved it!!! and the new generation like me will fight to keep it!!!💯🔥☝️🦾🏋️🇯🇲
Maroons and Coromantee are descendants of slaves with Ghanaian roots.
words discovered in the video proves as such. I saw
Ghanaian Akan names like Abeng (horn) and Nyankopong ( God)..
Jamaica name was originally was coined from Akan word " Gyama ya ka" , meaning " we are stuck" . This after the slaves sent there found out they couldnt return back to their African home anymore.
+Friedrich wow!! Very interesting info! Thanks for sharing :)
You are welcome. Well in current day Jamaican patoi language. There are many Akans Ghanaian language words fused into it. There also still exist Ghanaian culture, naming and languages maintained by descendants of escaped slaves sent to not only Jamaica but Guyana, Suriman, St Lucia, Aruba and even further to state of Lousiana in USA. I would love to invite you guys to Ghana to explore with me someday, whenever you are able to do so.
Friedrich As a descendant of Maroons, you are right about the Ghanaian roots. However, Jamaica was not named after an Akan word. The Arawaks named is 'Xamayca' which I believe means the land of wood and water. Don't quote me on that but it is something to that effect.
Pedro Carlito yes true that one could just be a coincidence.
Yeah brother man,I learned that from a Ghanaian historian who has it all over facebook regarding the Akan origin of the Jamaican name.
my father told me he's maroon but i didn't learn the culture so thanks man...beautiful
why didn't you go research did you really need to wait to be told?
Bless ignore these negative vibes from this comment. I am glad you feel as positive as me about this documentary. May I add you may like to look up 'Saeeds Reactor' on you tube.
I love how at 8:30 he says explains that the English couldn’t manage to climb the entrance to the village “inna dem big shoes” 🤣 patois makes everything funnier
Thanks for sharing this positive, historic part of my home 🇯🇲
I was born and grown in Jamaica and I learn so much. Lots of news to me.
no I am a Jamaican too !!!! and it help me with my maroons dance and there speech for school
WE HAVE HEALING WATERS TOO AND IT IS SOMETIMES HOT WTERCOMING OUT THE STONES
Proud maroon decendent. I am so proud of my heritage.
Same here
In my school days in Guyana,I read a book called"The young warriors"about the maroon in Jamaica.Enjoyed reading that book and now your vidio.irie
My grandparents were maroon theres an entire part of my life I didn’t know existed and I was born and raised in Jamaica 🇯🇲
Should keep your secret among yourselves
😢☠💯
We seem to never learn.
No white visitors... just can’t be trusted
Chinonyerem Proud 2 Be Igbo I agree. History shows every time we trusted a white man tragedy comes.
Yeah even the sounding of the horn...smh
Taínos spoke Taíno which is one of the Arawakan languages. Arawak was another group of Indians that first settled in Jamaica, not the language spoken by the Taínos. Just for learning purposes🙈.
This is a beautiful documentary, thank you @Vagabrothers
This Video was outstandingly shot , edited and produced. I have a jamaican background and Ive been wanting to do a mini doc about the maroons for years and never took the leap. well done, respect.
My country is filled with adventures that can take you a lifetime to discover all of them. However, thanks for coming. Bless up.
We loved Jamaica and need to come back! One Love!
My mother is maroon and we never and never will forget about our wild/maroon culture 💯
Another great vlog! I love how you always tell something about the history or culture,it's not only educating but fascinating as well. Can't wait for the next video 👍❤
+Liana Malynczáková thank you Liana!! We try to entertain and educate a bit. Glad you're enjoying it!! Thanks for watching liking and commenting. Out of curiosity where are you from? 😊
vagabrothers Slovakia 🤗
Liana Malynczáková i agree. People's stories fascinate me and inspires to live a meaningful life
Who forgot the Maroons? In Jamaica we are taught about Maroons from the primary school level...we have not forgotten
ITS A SHAME THAT TRUTH HAS TO STILL BE TOLD BY OTHERS INSTEAD OF TRUTH TAUGHT INSCHOOLS AND ALL AROUND....PROUD TO BE BORN JAMAICAN AND HAVING A PANAMANIAN FATHER!!KOOL VID
Awesome guys, very interesting, well done.
I am from Jamaica 🇯🇲 and I am German Maroon. I love my people nuff love.
Love that you add some history into your videos. This way they not only inspire travel but also knowledge of the culture and people!
+Stephanie Krynitsky glad you enjoy and value it Stephanie! Much more on the way!!