Short History of the West Indies

Philip M. Sherlock

John H. Parry

St.Martin's Press

During each evening of their six-day party the forest animals listen to a story told by the animals who guess the answers to Chimpanzee's riddles.

Ears and Tails and Commonsense

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Macmillan Caribbean

The legend of Anansi is a legend told by storytellers and parents throughout the world, and Philip Sherlock brings this original Spider Man to life! Fifteen Jamaican folk tales, illustrated with over fifty black and white drawings.

Anancy the Spider Man

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

This is the story of the founding and development over four decades of the University of the West Indies; of its purposes and programmes with emphasis on its role as an agent of social development and economic growth in widely dispersed diverse communities most of which have gained political independence since the early 1960s.

University of the West Indies a Carribea

Rex M. Nettleford

Humanity Press/prometheus Bk

In this guide Jamaica is revealed as a nation beyond the rum punches, the beaches and the "must-see" tourist attractions. The author offers a sensitive observation of the land, not just as it is seen but also as it is heard through the lilt of reggae in a small village bar, through the smells of a blend of fragrances in a rain forest and through his taste buds which are aroused by the fire of jerk pork and soothed with a swig of Red Strips beer. Sir Philip Sherlock is an eminent Jamaican scholar, historian and writer. He is currently a Vice President of the Carribean Resources Development Foundation. Barbara Preston held a senior position with the Jamaican Tourist Board from 1975 until her retirement in 1990.

Jamaica: the Fairest Isle: A Visitor's Guide

Travel

Barbara Preston

Caribbean

This is Jamaica: An informal guide,

Hodder&Stoughton

Caribbean Citizen

Longman

The Story of the Jamaican People

Excerpt from the Introduction: In this book the authors tell the story of the Jamaican people from an African-Jamaican, not a European, point of view. The story begins in West Africa, with many different African peoples, but chiefly with the Akan, Ashanti, Yorubas, Ibibios and with nations from the region of the Congo. The Jamaican people have never accepted what was presented to them as the history of Jamaica. By claiming Africa as the homeland, Jamaicans gain a sense of historical continuity, of identity, of roots. With this perspective they also claim a remarkable heritage of achievement on a hemispheric scale across four centuries, from the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1518. African-Jamaicans, not Europeans, built into the story the love of liberty, and a passion for justice and quality-witness Cudjoe, Nanny, Sam Sharpe, Gordon, Bogle, Garvey, Norman Manley and Bustamante. In the nineteenth century others joined us, partners in the struggle for nationhood, from India, China, Lebanon and Syria, in addition to those who chose to make Jamaica their home when the Spanish colonists left.

History

Americas

Ian Randle Publishers

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