Nanny's Asafo Warriors
The Jamaican Maroons' African Experience
Werner Zips
ISBN: | 9789766375171 |
Publisher: | Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica |
Published: | 9 September, 2011 |
Format: | Paperback |
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Nanny's Asafo Warriors
The Jamaican Maroons' African Experience
Werner Zips
In 1975, Nanny was declared the first, and is so far the only female National Hero in Jamaica. This was seen as a breakthrough in acknowledging the historical dimension of her people, the Maroons, as freedom fighters. The Maroons are, to this day, viewed in some quarters as a self-styled military elite who abandoned their fellow Africans on the plantations once they had procured their own freedom through the signing of peace treaties with the British Crown. However, Nanny's Asafo Warriors has do
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