Dr Amina Blackwood Meeks answered with passion when she was asked this question on Saturday: “Why should Jamaicans be interested in our own storytelling when we have all sorts of online entertainment from all over the world?” “First, you have to.
It was billed as five days of academic discourse, rituals, ancestral veneration, cultural explosion and entertainment, and the 15th International Charles Town Maroon Conference and Festival, held from Wednesday, June 21 to Sunday, June 25, inside.