A local guide explained to the streamer how the island's national heroes, including Nanny of the Maroons, shaped the its ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

Ebony G. Patterson, “Cultural Soliloquy (Cultural Object Revisited)” (2010), auto chassis and body, fabric, glitter, rhinestones, audio recording and other materials, variable dimensions (all images ...

Despite centuries of colonization, Jamaica has developed its own truly unique culture, which became popular worldwide after it gained independence from England in 1962. This ­heritage-inspired ...

Jamaica's first inhabitants, the Tainos (also called the Arawaks), were a peaceful people believed to be from South America. It was the Tainos who met Christopher Columbus when he arrived on Jamaica's ...