AS a child, I was introduced to the beliefs that enveloped the world of the last days of British Guiana and early Guyana.

Call him the Caribbean Spider-Man. Anancy, the tricky spider at the heart West African and Caribbean folklore, will be celebrated at the daylong Anancy festival at the South Regional Broward College ...

What can be learned from the way that Caribbean people tell stories and how this practice has evolved? How might we preserve these stories for wider audiences? And what is the most effective way to re ...

'Embracing us in this way makes it easier for us to blend in' Patois for “Father of the Forest,” this beloved character is the protector of nature. Half-man, half-goat, he is fast and strong, and ...

The racism baked into America’s spookiest holiday caused me to abandon it. The folktales of my Caribbean birthplace helped me reimagine it for my children. Halloween was one of my favorite annual ...

Talking to dead relatives in dreams could lead to the death of a loved one and putting a mirror in front of an infant’s face could make the child mute, according to Caribbean folklore. These, and ...

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Decolonising the Archive (DTA) is collaborating with Theatre Peckham, the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) and Black Thrive to stage Una Marson’s Pocomania. This alliance will bring Una Marson’s lost ...

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands — A collection of Caribbean folk music recorded some four decades ago by American archivist Alan Lomax is coming back to the region. Lomax’s New York-based ...

For over 400 years Caribbean societies have been made and re-made through planet-wide migrations; the regions peoples and cultural forms (music, literature, dance and cuisine) proliferate out to the ...