Controversial American motivational speaker, psychologist, and Pan-Africanist Dr Umar Johnson has vowed to return after an intensely moving experience attending the Accompong Maroon Festival for the first time. Speaking briefly at the First.
Reggae singer Warrior King will be a part of Maroon Fest’s history as the major headliner for the event’s first live concert, during the annual January celebrations in Accompong, St Elizabeth. “I see a lot of great artistes on the show but it’s.
The relationship of the early Maroons to the enslaved Africans is further complicated by research showing that colonial records from the 1800s identified persons in Maroon communities a "slaves" a.
Accompong ’s annual traditional celebration, Maroon Fest, will be hosting its inaugural stage show as an additional spectacle to the customary activities. Maroon Fest is now slated to be a two-day festival, with the traditional annual activities.
The Government is being warned that it is missing an opportunity to modernise its relations with the Maroons by not involving them in the constitutional reform process. That is the assertion from attorney-at-law Marcus Goffe, who represents the.