Jamaican Maroons
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Jamaican Maroons
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Jamaican Maroons George Brandon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windward Maroons, Leeward Maroons. Also call themselves Nyankimpong Pickibo (“children of the Creator” in Twi).
LOCATION
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LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION
There are two major centers of Maroon life in Jamaica. The Leeward Maroons are centered in the mountainous Cockpit country of the Western half of Jamaica in the parishes of St. James, St. Elizabeth, and Trelawney. The spiritual and physical center of the Maroons in this area is the village of Accompong with significant Maroon populations in Aberdeen, Maroon Town, and Whitehall. On the eastern half of the island, in the Blue Mountains, is the other center of Maroon culture, the village of Moore town. Other Windward Maroon settlements in this area include Scots Hall and Charlestown. Most of the time Maroons speak a Jamaican patois that derives most of its vocabulary from English but often has syntactical and grammatical features more akin to those common in West African languages. Both Maroon groups also possess
an archaic language they call Kromanti, an African-based tongue that nowadays has no consistent native speakers but survives in ritual songs and in old folktales. In Accompong there is a small but significant Rastafarian community that has added its own distinctive form of Rasta-talk to an already complex linguistic situation.
OVERVIEW
OF THE
CULTURE
Maroon
