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The Moreish PodcastCaribbean Folklore: Anansi’s Antics in Antigua & BarbudaSend us a textAntiguan Folktales: Anansi's Wisdom and LessonsIn this episode of The Moreish Podcast, Kesha Christie, a renowned storyteller and Ted Talk speaker, joins the show to explore the rich tapestry of Caribbean folktales, focusing on the iconic trickster hero, Anansi. This captivating Anansi story from Antigua & Barbuda has it’s origins in Ghana (Africa).Hema and Kesha discuss how these stories reflect and preserve cultural and spiritual beliefs, the nuances and variations across different Caribbean islands, as well as the impact of historical influences, understanding pre-colonial African hi...2025-04-2927 min
The Moreish PodcastCaribbean Folklore: Trickster Tales with Kesha ChristieSend us a textThe Rich Tradition of Anansi Stories, Monkey Tales and Caribbean FolkloreIn this bonus episode, Hema and guest Kesha Christie explore the origins and rich tradition of Caribbean folklore and trickster tales. Starting with an Anansi story skillfully told by Kesha, they follow it up with a talk about the origins and roots, tracing it back to West Africa, specifically Ghana. Kesha shares another tale, Monkey Who Loves Trouble, followed by a discussion on how these narratives have travelled and evolved across different cultures and Caribbean countries. T...2025-04-0121 min
The Moreish PodcastExploring Caribbean Folklore with Kesha ChristieSend us a textIn this episode of The Moreish Podcast, Hema and Kesha, a Jamaican-Canadian storyteller, chat about the rich tradition of Caribbean folklore. Kesha discusses the timeless relevance of folktales, the cultural significance embedded in them, and how they have evolved and intermixed across Caribbean countries. From trickster tales featuring Anansi to the eerie stories of Lagahoo and La Jablesse / La Diablesse, Kesha explains how these narratives continue to shape social behaviours and cultural identity. She also touches on the influence of colonization and the fusion of African, Indian, and Indigenous traditions in C...2025-02-2534 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe Singing Pepper Bush- Vincentian FolktaleHave you ever wonder why there is misery in the world? This How and Why folktale gives us the answer
Story retold in this episode:
The Singing Pepper Bush
Tales from the Caribbean by Trish Cooke
ISBN-13 : 978-0141373089
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #vincentian #Folktales #Anansi #community #anancy #caribbeanstrong #animalstories #caribbeanlife #celebration #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforki...2023-04-0612 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesWhy Misery Remains in the World - Puerto Rican FolktaleHave you ever wonder why there is misery in the world? This How and Why folktale gives us the answer
Story retold in this episode:
Why Misery remains in the World
Greedy Mariani and Other Folktales of the Antilles Dorothy Sharp Carter
ISBN 10: 0689304250 ISBN 13: 9780689304255
Publisher: Atheneum, 1974
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #PuertoRican #Folktales #Anansi #community #anancy #caribbeanstrong #animalstories #caribbeanlife #celebration #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #c...2023-03-1507 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesTiger Soup - Jamaican FolktaleAre you ready for another Anancy story, find out what happens with Tiger and the soup.
Story retold in this episode:
Tiger Soup An Anansi Story from Jamaica
http://soupsong.com/stiger.html
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Story retold in this episode:
The monkey who asked for misery
https://www.longbranch.k12.nj.us/cms/lib/NJ01001766/Centricity/Domain/868/The-Monkey-Who-Asked-for-Misery.pdf
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Haiti #Haitian #Folktales #independenceday #community #anancy #caribbeanstrong #animalstories #caribbeanlife #bouki #celebration #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #cari...2023-01-1907 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesUncle Bouki gets whee-ai - Haitian FolktaleHappy New Year!
Haiti celebrates it's independence on January 1st.
The story we share in this episode is a Bouki story, These stories have been told for as long as people can remember. They teach us how to live and how to behave. Bouki is a character that is very foolish or easily confused.
Story retold in this episode:
Uncle Bouki gets whee-ai
https://www.teachingforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Haiti_Literature.pdf
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UMOJA (Unity)
KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Determination):
UJIMA (Collective Work and Responsibility):
UJAMAA (Cooperative Economics)
NIA (Purpose)
KUUMBA (Creativity)
IMANI (Faith)
https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2011/11/kwanzaa_stories.html
Each principle has a story and the story in this episode celebrates Kujichagulia
Story in this episode:
The three tests.
Resource: https://eshu.folktales.net/resources/kwanzaa/kujichagulia.html
Happy Holidays
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Story in this episode:
The Best Gift of All - The Legend of La Vieja Belén
Resource: https://books.google.ca/books/about/Best_gift_of_all.html?id=j3VJAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
Happy Holidays
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www...2022-12-2207 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesPig and Long Mout - Jamaican FolktaleOnce upon a Christmas time, Anancy was up to his trickster ways...
Story in this episode:
Pig & Long Mout
Resource: Louise Bennett Anancy and Miss Lou, Page 5
Seasons Greetings
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Let's celebrate with story!!!
A boy and a giant play dice...
Story in this episode:
Magic Flight
Resource: The Journal of American Folklore Barbados Folklore - Vol. 38, No. 148 (Apr. - Jun., 1925), pp. 267-292 (26 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/535030?seq=9#metadata_info_tab_contents
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Let's celebrate with story!!!
How do your repay and act of kindness?
Story in this episode:
Snake and Hunter
Resource: The Journal of American Folklore Vol. 30, No. 116 (Apr. - Jun., 1917), pp. 239-250 (12 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/534344?seq=10#metadata_info_tab_contents
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2022-11-2409 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe Taxi Ride - African Folktale - GhanaIn this episode we are sharing with you an African Folktale.
Why do a Donkey, a goat and a dog behave in different ways around cars.
Story in this episode:
The Taxi Ride
Resource: How & Why stories world tales kids can read & tell by Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #african #worldtales #Folktales #African #Ghana #Ghanaian #caribbeanstrong #howandwhy #animalstories #caribbeanlife #africandiaspora #Cel...2022-11-1005 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesRounce - St. Vincent and the Grenadines FolkloreSt. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrate their independence on October 27th. They received their independence in 1979. Let's celebrate with this story about Rounce.
Although the Caribbean does no celebrate Halloween there are many things that go bump in the night.
Rounce is an evil character which grunts like a pig and will carry you away if it finds you outside of the house after dark.
Story in this episode:
Rounce
Resource: https://www.searchlight.vc/special-feature/2008/10/24/the-cultural-heritage-of-st-vincent-and-the-grenadines/
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2022-10-2808 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesWhy the Crocodile has no tongue - Cuban FolktaleHow and why stories explain the things we don't understand. This old Cuban folktale explains why the crocodile has no tongue.
Cuba celebrates it's independence on October 10th and first received independence in 1902.
Story retold in this episode:
Why the crocodile has no tongue
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Story retold in this episode:
Bird Cherry Island
Resource: Ken Bowen - Jamaican Canadian Association Seniors group
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Jamaican #Jamaica #Jamaicanindependence #Jamaica60 #Anancy #MissLou #misslou #Anansi #Independence #animalstories #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stori...2022-10-0607 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesCockroach and Fowl - Jamaican FolktaleHappy 103 birthday Miss Lou. September 7th is Dr. Louise Bennett Coverly's birthday. She is a national treasure and the person who brought Jamaican Patois to the world.
Story retold in this episode:
Cockroach and Fowl
Resource: Anancy and Miss Lou by Louise Bennett
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Jamaican #Jamaica #Jamaicanindependence #Jamaica60 #Anancy #MissLou #misslou #Anansi #Independence #animalstories #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #black...2022-09-0806 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesAnancy and Five (Yam Hills) - Jamaican FolktaleJamaica celebrates 60 years of independence in 2022. Jamaica first received it's independence on August 6, 1962. There motto is out of many , one people. Let's celebrate with this story.
Story retold in this episode:
Anancy and Five (yam hills)
Resource: http://anansistories.com/Traditional_Stories.html
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Jamaican #Jamaica #Jamaicanindependence #Jamaica60 #Anancy #Anansi #Independence #animalstories #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #story...2022-08-3106 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe three sons - Bahamian FolktaleThe Bahamas celebrates it's independence on July 10. There motto is Forward, Onward Upward Together. Let's celebrate with this story.
Story retold in this episode:
The three sons
Resource: https://gullahgeecheeconnection.wordpress.com/folk-tales/
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Bahamian #Bahamas #Bahamasindependence #Independence #animalstories #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #Celebrate #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforkids #family #qualitytime #MQT #storiesforadults #storiesforfamilies #stories #storyteller #tales #fun2022-07-1409 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesAnansi and His Sons - African FolktaleThis is a African folktale about Anansi and his six sons. This story is often used during Kwanzaa to illustrate UMOJA, or unity. Find out what happens when all of Anansi's sons work together to save him and there is only one reward to give.
Story retold in this episode:
Anansi & His Sons
Resource: http://mail.danielharper.org/story20.htm
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Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesWhy John Crown have peel Head - Jamaican FolktaleThis is a Jamaican folktale about Anancy & John Crow. John Crown is a Jamaican common Vulture also known as turkey vulture.
Story retold in this episode:
Why John Crown have peel head
Resource: Annancy Stories by Pamela Colman Smith
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Story retold in this episode:
The cunning Tortoise
Resource: https://edspace.american.edu/thelma-ekeocha/2020/06/26/the-cunning-tortoise/
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Africa #african #fables #animalstories #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforkids #family #qualitytime #MQT #storiesforadults #storiesforfamilies #stories #storyteller #tales #fun2022-06-0207 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesHow Mockingbird tricked Alligator - Guyanese FolktaleGuyana celebrates 56 years on independence on May 26th
Guyana's motto: One People, One Nation, One Destiny
In this episode we celebrate Guyana's Independence with a Folktale
Story retold in this episode:
How Mockingbird tricked Alligator
Resource: Dorothy St. Aubyn's Caribbean Fables Animal stories from Guyana and the Antilles
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Guyana #Guyanese #fables #animalstories #independenceday #guyanaindependenceday #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #d...2022-05-2508 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe Vain Rooster - Cuban FolktaleStories told at parties and other gatherings are know as Cuentos Cubanos.
Story retold in this episode:
The vain rooster
Resource: https://www.storycove.com/rooster-s-night-out-summary
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #Cuba #Cuban #Cuentoscubanos #cuentos #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforkids #family #qualitytime #MQT #storiesforadults #storiesforfamilies #stories #storyteller #tales #fun2022-05-1907 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe Story of Thunder and Lightening - Nigerian FolktaleStories are told at events where people gather to listen and participate in stories about past deeds, traditions, morals and myths.
Story retold in this episode:
The story of Thunder and Lightening
Resource: https://www.chesswood.w-sussex.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=15564&type=pdf
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #African #Africa #Nigerian #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforkids #f...2022-05-1207 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe Tortoise Who Flew to Heaven - Folktale from the AntillesThis story is from the islands of the Antilles, we know them as the Caribbean islands. The Antilles are made up of three groups The Bahamas (islands and reefs), the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.
Story retold in this episode:
The Tortoise who flew to heaven
Resource: Greedy Mariani by Dorothy Sharp Carter
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #African #Africa #theantilles #caribbeanlife #Trickster #africandiaspora #diaspora #car...2022-05-0510 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesMonkey and the Bee - Cameroon FolktaleStories are alive and well in Cameroon, stories are like listening to elders when they speak. This African folktale teaches a valuable lesson
Story retold in this episode:
The story of the Monkey and the Bee
Resource: the Sacred Door and other Stories Cameroon Folktales of the Beba by Makuchi
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #African #Africa #Cameroon #Trickster #africandiaspora #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #s...2022-04-2809 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesAnancy and the Guinea Bird - Antiguan FolktaleAntiguan stories are told about legends, folklore and folktale with characters such as Anancy.
Story retold in this episode:
Anancy and the Guinea Bird
Resource: Pearls of Wisdom by Rauf Mama & Mary Romney
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #African #Africa #Antigua # AntiguanandBarbuda #Antiguan #Trickster #Anancy #diaspora #caribbeandiaspora #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforkids #family #qualitytime #MQT #storiesforadults #storiesforfamilies #stories #storyteller #tales #fun2022-04-2110 min
Stand Up & Speak Up With Debby Montgomery JohnsonMeet the Storyteller - Stand Up & Speak Up with Debby Montgomery Johnson and Kesha ChristieSEASON 3 here we come! What a great way to kick off the start of Season 3 of Stand Up & Speak Up. Storytelling isn't just for kids - it connects us ALL. Today's special guest on Stand Up & Speak Up is Kesha Christie and she's coming in from Ontario, Canada. Originally from Jamaica, Kesha grew up hearing traditional stories from her grandparents. Oral storytelling is an integral part of African and Caribbean identity and passed down from generation to generation. Not wanting the ART of storytelling to die out with the older generations, Kesha took on the mantle of STORYTELLER and she's a...2022-04-1459 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesToad & Donkey A Jamaican FolktaleJamaicans have a creative way of entertaining themselves and storytelling is one of those activities. Stories are told wherever and whenever people congregate.
Story retold in this episode:
Toad & Donkey
Resource: Jamaican Song and Stories - http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/06/47/65/00001/AA00064765_00001.pdf
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Story retold in this episode:
Rabbit's Long Ears
Resource: Greedy Mariani and other folktales of the Antilles by Dorothy Sharp Carter
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#storytelling #caribbean #culture #African #Africa #Cuba#Cubanfolktales #Cuentos #cubanos #cuentoscubanos #fables #folktales #blackartist #trickstertale #storytellingmatters #talkintales #stories #storiesforkids #family #qualitytime #M...2022-04-0711 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesHow Cats and Dogs became Enemies - St. Lucian FolktaleFolktales in St. Lucia are know as Tim Tim stories. These French creole stories called Animal tales original in African form part of St. Lucian Folklore. These stories are designed to Instruct and entertain
Storyteller: E di Queek
Listeners: E Di Quack
Story retold in this episode:
How Cats and Dogs became enemies
Resource: Once upon a time in Saint Lucia by Jacintha Annius-Lee
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Stories are an essential part of the Zulu tradition.
Story retold in this episode:
The lost message
Resource: https://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/saft/sft04.htm
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Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesPlantain or Plantain?There seems to bee a debate on whether this delicious fruit is pronounced "plantin" or "plantain".
I am team "plantin" spelled plantain
Here are some facts
Referred to as the cooking banana as it is very starchy and needs to be cooked before eating where are the regular banana is considered s desert banana that can be eaten without cooking
Plantain is indigenous to South Asia made its way to African and Brought to the Caribbean by the Spanish and African slave traders.
It has become a staple in...2022-03-1711 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesSome Stories never end...
The world is opening up again and the events that have been cancelled for the last two years are coming back. Every excited to get back out into the community and see people in person!
Mask mandates ending shortly not sure how we feel about that. But very happy to no ask people about vaccination status. That line politics and religion, don’t ask.
Let’s get into the stories
Resources:
Caribbean stories, retold by Robert Hull, Thomson Learning, 1994
Story retold in this episode:
The...2022-03-1110 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesDominican Republic Independence - Latin FolktaleDominican Republic independence on February 27.
Flag meaning - The red symbolizes the blood spilled by the fighters in the war of independence; the blue represents the sky raised above the country and from where God protects the nation and its ideas of progress while the white symbolizes the peace and union of the Dominicans.
Motto: God, Homeland Freedom
Resources:
https://www.visitdominicanrepublic.org/flag-of-dominican-republic#:~:text=The%20red%20symbolizes%20the%20blood,and%20union%20of%20the%20Dominicans.
Center for Latin American, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1985/1989
Story retold in this episode:2022-03-0411 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesKwik Kwak - St. Lucia IndependenceSt. Lucia celebrates independence on February 22. They gain independence in 1979.
Motto: The land, the people, the light...
Known for drive in volcano
Resources:
Jacintha Annius-Lee Once Upon a time in St. Lucia, 2018
Story retold in this episode:
Never be rude to a stanger
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2022-02-2513 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesBlack History Month - African American taleBlack History Month
February is Black history Month, borrow a line form Ms. G.H.E.T.T.O. stories our history should never be a mystery. This is a time where black excellence and black contribution is celebrated, I gives our children a chance to see their history in the classrooms. Have you ever wondered what life would belief if there were not black people in the world?
Resources:
https://williamsonlibrary.lib.wv.us/African%20American/what_if_there_were_no_black_peop.htm
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2022-02-1716 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesGrenadian Independence - Creole FolktaleBlack History Month – Grenadian Independence Day
February is Black history Month, for most of use we celebrate every day. This is a time where black excellence and black contribution is celebrated I gives our children a chance to see their history in the classrooms.
All the things happening during black history month.
February 6 Bob Marley’s birthday and s celebrated as Bob Marley Day.
February 7this Grenada Independence Day. In 2022 Grenada is celebrated 48 years on independence. Independence was received on February 7, 1974.
Grenada’s motto - “Ever conscious of God, we aspir...2022-02-1009 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesThe Jamaican MaroonsThe Maroons of Jamaica
The Maroon Celebration takes place annually on January 6th.
Who are the maroons?
The maroons descend from Africa who freed themselves from slavery in Jamaican and established communities of freed black people in the mountainous interior of Jamaica. They were the first to develop refugee communities.
The Maroons revolted against he British causing economic harm to the sugar industry. British. The British were not successful in theses revolts soldiers either go lost or were rumored to have said that her forest just got up and attacked them.2022-01-1408 min
Walk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesCric? Crac! - Haitian IndependenceHaiti Independence – Cric? Crac!
Haiti obtained it’s independence on January 1, 1804
Making Haiti the first Black republic in the word and the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery.
Haiti has two official languages French and Haitian Creole
Haiti also recognises voodoo as an official religion.
Haiti’s motto: L’Union Fail la force (Unity makes Strength)
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The Magic Orange Tree
Haitian Folktale what will happen to wicked stepmother
Wolkstein, Diane, The Magic Orange tree and...2022-01-0511 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesCaribbean Heritage Month - ON, Canada
September went by so fast with everyone settling into some kind of normal. In the Month of October, we celebrate Caribbean Heritage Month
Canada is home to a large and vibrant Caribbean-Canadian community in excess of 800,000, with more than half of them residing in Ontario.
October is a significant month for the Caribbean-Canadian community. Improvements to the Immigration Act (Canada) in October 1967 and the introduction of the Multiculturalism Policy in October 1971 opened new doors, allowing Caribbean people to see Canada as a place to establish roots, raise their children and become a...2021-10-1309 minWalk Good: African and Caribbean FolktalesMosquito One Mosquito two…Mosquito One Mosquito two…
Summer is a blur and back to school season is in full effect.
COVID-19 had us at some point feeling some kind of way and with the vaccine passport all your business is out. When things get crazy you have to do something different
Clap hand song (Mosquito one, Mosquito two…)
Mosquito one,
Mosquito two,
Mosquito jump
Inna hot callaloo
Mosquito three,
Mosquito four,
Mosquito fly
out de ole man door;
Mosquito five,
Mosquito six,
Mosq...2021-09-1708 min
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