Ethiopia meets India in Jamaican cultural drumming (2024)

@LeoOReggio E-Store: Donate: Please donate as funds are needed to restore the many damaged 1980s/90s videotapes I still have in storage and I would love to share with you. Thank you for liking and subscribing. This video I share with you highlights a rich part of our Jamaican motto “Out of Many, One People“ as, from a cultural perspective, you see a musical aspect of Jamaica’s African and Indian communities. Between 1845 and 1921, over 36,000 Indians were brought to Jamaica. Upon their arrival, the Indians were dispersed to the plantations in Portland, St Thomas, St Mary, Clarendon, and Westmoreland. When their indentureships were over, they could have settled in any part of the island or chosen to go back to India. But more than two-thirds remained, making Jamaica their home. Indians survived by building bonds with other communities on the island and learning their religious and cultural practices. Interraci