Fashion shoots have often treated Jamaica as a backdrop to the story. But Jamaica is a place with an outsize influence on global culture. The country’s musical genres have continually reset the pace ...

Igbo culture and languages, as well as other cultures from Africa, were key in forming the Jamaican Patois language and culture during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The Jamaican Patois is a ...

Thomas Glave wonders, What if Monica Lewinsky had been black? And what if instead of a woman, Lewinsky was a man? In his collection of essays, mostly written after 2000, Glave questions what it means ...

What's worse than a bad movie? If you ask linguist Joseph Farquharson, he might say a movie that makes a caricature of the distinct patois of Jamaican accents. When asked to be an advisor on the new ...

While Jamaica’s incredible athletes have continued to capture the hearts and the imaginations of the Chinese people, word is also spreading rapidly in China of the beautiful Caribbean island as a ...