Sister Farika's Maroon Story

[@kwamenyame1277]

As a Ghanaian the names she mentions are everyday names in Ghana. This is very very intriguing. One thing of my Akan (Asante) folks is we are very very proud do not back down to anyone.

[@darrenpinnock6651]

Kwame Nyame this is why we need to stop with the separation of we ain't african as Jamaicans and visa

[@shaniecemoore2887]

King Juelz u

[@shaniecemoore2887]

King Juelz what non sense

[@shaniecemoore2887]

The name is Moore from Moore town

[@darrenpinnock6651]

King Juelz I know what a maroon sorry who we are as my grandparents fathers are maroon. you say they are African so who and where are the rest from ??

[@restlessnative3818]

i LOVE this woman God bless her heart.

[@itstheru274]

"Yes !!❗"😍😙😍🌹

[@dereckbrown2241]

Ty f

[@charmainemagnone2487]

I am a descendant of Maroon from Clark’s Town, Trelawny. My mother told me stories carried down from her great grandparents. It’s so refreshing to know more about Nanny the Queen of the Maroons and her struggle to keep Jamaicans free. Thanks for this.

[@jonathanjohnson5216]

Clarks town nice. Duncan’s/ wait a bit🧨🧨🧨

[@jonathanjohnson5216]

My mother side of the family is from Litchfield and wait a bit and green town and Rio bio neuo

[@JaterUter]

​@@jonathanjohnson5216sss

[@thebiggsestate]

She didn't struggle to keep Jamaicans free, she made deals to Capture jamaican land, she wasn't jamaican, she was from Ghana Africa

[@taneshaclarke876]

​@@thebiggsestateher father was from Ghana who was a prince that came to jamaica to do business. He was ambushed and slaved. He escaped and ran away to the hills. Nanny was born a free woman who fought for slaves.

[@sheilahjackson4919]

I love this Beautiful Elder. So much knowledge

[@tribunal1287]

This lady looks like Nanny so I know Nanny cannot die...nothing good ever dies.

[@velvelineugbomhugbomah5877]

Her spirith still lives on the spirit goes not die

[@velvelineugbomhugbomah5877]

The king of the East there is a bush that has that name a d it shines the floor like a polish when i went to mt grandmother from ki gston i usecit on het floor i nevet ckean floor beforrcqnd she did nit adk me i did it on my own

[@velvelineugbomhugbomah5877]

West moreland ithunk

[@afrikaqueen6855]

you are so right!

[@itstheru274]

"That Ain't No Secret !!❗"😍🌹😙

[@thekusiwaa]

Thanx for this history I’m from Ghana 🇬🇭 and I didn’t know all this much appreciated

[@GAZAMAN93X]

Big Up Yuhself

[@drw4953]

Never delete this video please 🙏🏽💫

[@paulajohnson3847]

I listened while doing a crossword puzzle, yet I still managed to build and maintain a visual in my mind off everything she spoke on. Iv learnt more about the maroons here than I did in those fluke social studies classes. Kmt.

[@ivilwalters2095]

Goodi .viuck

[@shornorvineyard1045]

Only heard of them on the internet never taught it in school I did my own research. Hopefully my son will love to seek knowledge of self like me and he better ✊🏾

[@goldleaf9324]

This is good. This is material we will not read in nzungu history books. Thank you for this bit of history.

[@goldleaf9324]

We have a lot to be proud of. And lots of water has passed under the bridge. We have lost 100s of brave souls. We have paid in blood. The myth of otherness is part of the history the enemy made up to seperate us. The energy of our ancestors lies in us.

[@herbertwhite8079]

Regurgitated lies… Brown people in Jamaica are not escaped Africans.

[@Francesco6961]

Thank you so much for sharing this awesome post!

[@masterGAWK9]

Thank you for this rarely heard truth. The last minute and a half is pure FIRE!

[@blackcosmos]

"These secrets were not known to the British. They were very hostile to the environment. They stomped thru the jungle like elephants making big noises where as the Africans walked on tip toes" 🖤🇯🇲

[@ocdraridrogonel]

Jamaican's are not AFRICAN, the JAMAICANS are the natives to the land, TAINOS the ARAWAKS, we love our brothers and sisters on AFRICA, not even those people think they're AFRICANS...

[@RoelAlistair]

Xamaka is lower egypt the whole of the americas is lower egypt ecuptah

[@gullyvendetta2642]

​@@ocdraridrogonelwere do you get that from ??? Go pick up a book and read you need it so bad you don't even know smfh

[@ocdraridrogonel]

@@gullyvendetta2642 the books that these caucasians made for you in school that these overseers made for you on Jamaica? Which books are you talking about? Why don't you go read books on the inconsistencies of what they fed to the Jamaicans the lies the obscurities? Books like stolen legacy that show how much these caucasians lie?

[@ocdraridrogonel]

@@gullyvendetta2642 that's coming from a Jamaican, you people don't even own your own country. You people still owned by England, you're not free and have no say in anything that your government tells you to. You people have the military walking around with m4 bushmasters just because you can't stop un-aliving your own children. Please tell your youth to stop un-living they self and pick a book up before you come online trying to make it seem like you know something!

[@bim-ska-la-bim4433]

Enjoyed learning some history I wouldn't otherwise get to hear...thanks.

[@itstheru274]

"That Ain't No Secret !!❗"😍😙

[@lynnfoster3960]

I was born and grow in accompong town and ever words this lady says is true 👍

[@lintonclarke]

That was an amazing report. I've been looking for more information about my people and this was a really good start.

[@missbabyloved7531]

Asantes/Akans use camouflage leaves 🍃 method to fight their enemies, eg defeat the British when they had wars with them so that is very important display among Akans in Ghana during festivals like Akwasidae, Odwira

[@itstheru274]

"OMG!"😲😮" Thank You! For that comment !!❗"😙😘

[@calvinwright895]

This African is a great teacher of all African she remind me of nanny the great worrier may the lord God continue to guide and strengthen to tell us of the reality that took place in the past

[@missbabyloved7531]

@@calvinwright895 thanks

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@Ibukun0917]

Excellent presentation, thank you for sharing. I look forward to more.

[@socialstudiesconcepts]

This is a great video for my class.

[@BeingSpecialNYCAdvocate]

Sister Farika has been keeping the spirit for a long time!!! Met her in Washington, DC in the 90s.

[@KaylaSweet]

Very wise woman! Thank you for this!!

[@pamelajohnson6900]

Listen..👂🏾🗣️Our anssisters spiritual vibrations still teaches us. I've heard, the maroon stories before but this version, sent vibrations through my body, as certain points were mentioned. 👏🏾🙌🏾✊🏾

[@creatorsblossom9037]

Sistren you are a wonderful griot! I thoroughly enjoyed the historical journey you took me on!

[@ptseti]

I could listen to your stories all fvcking day. Thank you for this!

[@charmaineashman2319]

Beautiful Beautiful I love this history about the maroon in Jamaica

[@daviatate979]

I like your video. Its very interested

[@Kojo_Quainoo]

Proud to be a Ghanaian. I knew Jamaicans were my brothers and sisters

[@Outside-uq5xp]

Thank you very much for another perspective on the maroons story .make a series of them very interesting.

[@niilaryea8876]

The horns are still blown when the Akan King is coming into public. It is frightening to hear the dirge from the horns during funerals or war.

[@RobertBrown-gv6cv]

great information.. blessed love rastafari 🌴

[@drw4953]

Jah bless

[@skycar56]

Fabulous history and a superb story teller.

[@ASTSpeaks]

Authentic Living Queen Grandmother Nana Farika Berhane protecting and teaching truth of the Maroons of Jamaica. Giving thanks. Remain Inspired #viccc365

[@dgaoyamaat]

Beautiful story. Love the history and knowledge of our people. Freedom or death!

[@stephenowususerbeh]

Very interesting and informative. From Ghana 🙂

[@jamaicarootstv3083]

Thank you Sister Farikah. I wish I could meet you. I still don't know if the world knows how highly efficient this lady was. Queen Nanny should be in military museums across the world. The wars were not normal. She was the one who pronounced death on any British soldier caught alive. They said they dont mind death but its how and what the Maroons will do to carry this out. A British Lt gave a full account of this in his bio. The maroons had him pinned down and what remained of his few soldiers for hours. They cd. not even move to find water thirst almost killed them. The British never wanted to be caught alive. Queen Nanny and her soldiers namely Quoa her brother must have been engaged in warfare in Ghana. They were highly skilled, organized and moved with such efficiency it baffled the English. The maroons would know everything going ... men posted everywhere they knew hours before any strangers/soldiers came into the village. They had the first 'cell phone' this alone put them in a very advantageous position. I remember meeting my black cousins in England whose mother was born J'can. My black cousins were praising England and the British military and boasting how rich Britain was! They were brainwashed in the English schools. I was shocked! I had to ask them 'Do you know how Britain became rich? This was off your fore parents blood, sweat and tears. All this info was hidden from them or the info was 'washed' and given to them in schools. My channel Jamaica Roots TV coming soon.

[@jenr2325]

Don’t let this history die out now, I see a Bauxite company buying up precious land in Jamaica

[@KDvybezmiami]

thanks for this knowledge

[@sharonblythe2907]

thanks for the information

[@Flyprincess23]

This made my day

[@kofisugar]

The Akans are incredibly a unique race. Very calm, quiet, gentle, highly intelligent and powerfully strong (physically and spiritually) yet simple and peaceful.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

There are no races all the rest died out or bred with us. Homo sapiens are the only human race left alive.

[@jamaicanhighmusic3132]

I need to see movies about these parts of our history

[@juuni9656]

❤️🔥📽 is YOUR mind blown? Thank you Sister Farika for your research 🎁

[@antoraapril7511]

We love you Nanny. Thank you for all you did for us ❤

[@patriciamharris5664]

Love this!! My Father s family are Maroon and i wish i could travel back to Jamaica and link with his descendants. That is my prayer 🙏

[@maroonbubbleja]

This was incredible

[@sergebaron9086]

anyone who visit Haiti Will tell you there's a huge bronze statue erected in front of the national palace kneel on one knee ,with a conch shell in his mouth and a machete in the other hand.

[@kongomon2]

Haitians ,Jamaicans same people bro

[@sharieprendy4181]

It is said marroon warriors was sent by Nanny to help the Haitians fight the French. Yea

[@labelle8110]

@@sharieprendy4181Haitians are natural born fighters. Our revolution started since the 1600s with Makandal that is why we freed ourselves first.

[@worldapartmentsbaselmyers2029]

Thank you very much Empress.

[@tevinashley4533]

Africa is still here woow Nollywood need to visit

[@Kayla-kd8ov]

And Africa has some beautiful places, it's not all poverty and starvation. Don't be fooled

[@tevinashley4533]

Come on I know that thanks anyway

[@johnathonwesley9506]

Alot of jamaican don't know the history of jamaica, the foreigner knows more about the history . Slavery was not in jamaica alone the slaves master were selling them in other countries Cuba, Brazil There's alot more countries that African slaves lived and settled .these people are the slaves descendant ,slaves master descendants also get free land. WE have to educate ourselves , about and find out where our fourth parents from . I know my father is maroons, to be honest majority of people out there don't know some of their family, and we all passing,and talking to them and don't know. WE all have to loved each other's tomorrow promises to no one and be kind.

[@MC1990ify]

I could listen to her all day❤

[@westindianmalkah8570]

Proud of my Maroon lineage!!! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@drtaylor1800]

Very Interesting 💯

[@blissfulwillsun60]

Hail Queen Mother ❤️💛💚⚫️👸🏿🙌🏽👊🏾🤴🏾🇬🇳🇯🇲🔥🔥

[@xxxuncz]

I would like so help seeking out my roots because I was told by my grandfather before he passed last month that I am a descendant of Grand Nanny and Kojo, how do I get DNA evidence?

[@Prince-uy7en]

U can get ancestry dna

[@Prince-uy7en]

if it is true,the you are from the ashanti people in ghana

[@lordamoako8286]

@prince 07 not necessarily Ashanti but Fanti because Nanny and Kojo were from Kormantse but of course they were Akans, one people

[@clivemorgan7632]

Thank for the historical knowledge of Jamaican maroons!!!!

[@P.O.T.TPodcast]

THIS IS PURE GOLD

[@arnimeustace-kerr495]

Sister Farika,you are well learnt,i can listen to you all day.

[@thomaswilson5919]

We shalla v all hail 🙏🙏🙏

[@oneman165]

We so similar so much that it’s only Ghana who can do real Reggae and Dancehall... we are connected

[@annettegreengreen7374]

I meet Ghanaians it s natural energy of one x

[@doudouthiam8362]

Proud!

[@bernardbancrafe4390]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU 🙏

[@yelo30edits]

Dope concept! Different then the usual ghost, slasher same ol

[@eyeje19]

Blessings to the Warrior Ancestors

[@sergebaron9086]

one the greatest maroon Haiti ever known is name is bookman ,the leader of the slaves revolt in Haiti 1791.

[@MrJamaican8]

Serge Baron he's from Jamaica and was sent to Haiti

[@reginalddarbouze1128]

MrJamaican8 boukman was a hand full to Jamaican plantation owner and he was sold to Haiti by his owner. French plantation owner did not realize that plantation owners were trying to rid of their troubled boukman who insisted on open up other Jamaican slaves eyes in Jamaica . So they bought him. Boukman did not only bring his intelligence to Hispaniola? But he brought his spiritual warfare to Hispaniola Saint Domingue. Boukman was one of Haitian most important leaders against the French and yes he escaped in the mountains with others and boy was French men in trouble. He is a maroon in Haiti, nèg Maron.

[@goldgiverbeatz7433]

@@reginalddarbouze1128 bookman or a buccaneer lol history is told backwards n with lies

[@siszie9540]

Thank you sister Farika for your story which many of us share but was not told of our history

[@rassage7262]

That's a blessed teaching for all.

[@mohamadouthiam5723]

Thank you

[@marlonmosley]

As a wise old Jamaican told me once.. " No matter how much beans & rice i eat, my DNA says African. As Mr Tosh once sang.. & if you come from..

[@zigzagandmanman]

Marlon Mosley which old wise Jamaican told you that? Cause my old wise Jamaicans told me that we're not African at all

[@madwired1188]

Deraash What Uncle Rucus tell you that?

[@itstheru274]

Peace and blessings Brother Mosley! 💘 love my Jamaican restaurant's love my "Afrikan food! Just 💘 love my people !!❗😁😍" and some of the food is close to the same love my curry goat & ox tails! had a wonderful dish with peanut butter sauce on it !!❗ Unbelievable😲😍" my beautiful sister from Senegal made it i'm a Afrikan sister in America " my "Beautiful Black AFRIKAN" Brother's and Sister's were all "Afrikan!!❗😍😙" Please do and study your Culture and "Our Story !!❗😙" not his-story!😟😒" but "Our's peace 💘 love and blessings family

[@itstheru274]

@@zigzagandmanman i'm sure that wise Jamaican gave him a good Afrikan lesson in Afrikan stories and Culture "Our Story !!❗😙" our elder's know! As Afrikan Proverbs say when an Elder dies a library 🔥 🔥 burns down!😳😟" do your research !!❗family there's a book by Dr David Imhotep and get you some 📚 book's by Dr John Henrik Clarke and the Great and Honourable Marcus M. Garvey always do your research before putting mouth on anything or any one!!❗this is coming from a granny! 😙" Who still 💘 love's too get her read on!!❗😍😙" got too" got young people and grandbabies too help and teach!!❗Peace family😙

[@itstheru274]

@@zigzagandmanman "You better ✔ check again!!❗😒😮

[@antoasap8644]

they maintained there own cultural identity

[@clewis5312]

Wonderful work Lady Griot!! I feel your account of the history, thank you!! We must collab to get Maroon history added to J’can school books and culture teachings! The young NEED. to know of their roots!! 💗🙌🙌👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@lorrainebailey7304]

Love listening to African stories nuff respect beautiful Queen Rip Queen Nanny ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@euneta]

This lady is rather educated thank you for passing on your knowledge to us.

[@eyeje19]

Thank you armed Africans in Jamaica for Standing Your Ground

[@presterjohn1697]

Let's also thank our people in Guadeloupe (The REAL Freedom Convoy) for standing their ground against French CV-19 mandates, passports and lockdowns. They led a labor union backed fight in the streets for 6 months against French Special Forces sent by Macron to suppress their choice to maintain body autonomy. They stood firm and said NO to the "procedures". We Caribbean people will not comply and we will not sit idle in Canadian trucks (or) defecate all over the US Capital while the system kills us wholesale with their procedures.

[@eyeje19]

@@presterjohn1697 we didn't even see that here. Do you have any videos that I can check that out and share?

[@nattydread340]

Wow i did ask Google "where did camouflage come from?" and it show British 1848 smh

[@faycalbougrine2581]

Christianity wos force on you ,

[@watchingthehawks355]

Regrettably Christianity was the main reasons why Africans where taken as slave.

[@Flyprincess23]

I 💕 this

[@FallenAngel0000]

Bless up nanny 💯✊🏿💪🏿

[@NH-lf1wu]

The entire island had to be FREE!

[@iJahlux]

nice one

[@paakwesi6990]

Wow so much information

[@annetteredd7403]

Trying to live life in the old cultural way is what Will cause the enemy to make an attempt to humble you once again.What gets me is that a few nations were giving their independence and They woked up and became a great nation. The reason why they became powerful is because during their substigation they learned from oppression and technology of the Europeans and took advantage from what they learn

[@patterson9195]

I heard maroon hardly need to eat or drink half as much as an English man

[@itstheru274]

"That's right program us into thinking you need to eat all the time and all day long! "Now we're messed up! and there feeding us 💊 pills"😳😟😯"

[@shandonsimmons7451]

I just found out I’m descendant of this Warrior Queen through my grandfather’s side who is Jamaican “Maroon runaway animal ” now I know why strategic battle comes second nature for me. Surviving,Piercing eyes, fierce passionate lover .. God Bless Queen Nanny forever through our bloodline being powerful heroines who represent the oppression of our people forevermore 🇯🇲

[@Prince-uy7en]

Then i think you're from the ashanti tribe in ghana

[@ricecoastnetworkb5320]

Most of the blacks of Jamaica are from Sierra Leone and Ghana.

[@winstontownsend9713]

Chernoh Bah yea brother i see the similarities between the jamaican and ghananian,the way of life is similar,so is the language.

[@ricecoastnetworkb5320]

Winston Townsend you have to study also the Sierra leonean way of live their is lots of similarities, Sierra Leone had gone through a bad time.

[@jennifersomers3267]

Rice Coast Network B ...We know about Ghana and Nigeria, but there is a serious hidden link between Jamaicans and Sierra Leone. It is written in history, that after the maroons lost the second war and was sent to Nova Scotia Canada; they demanded to be shipped to Sierra Leone. I wish we can share missing notes!

[@jccjjccj3305]

@Đ.G. BLACKS our mother tongue is more nigerian, thats why we can understand nollywood movie

[@AI-mo6tx]

jccj jccj are you talking about their pidgen

[@公道公道]

I just came across this video , thank you sooooooo much i learnt a whole lot . I am a jamaican and now i am a lot more learnt as to why andrew holness must never ever be allowed to sell out our cockpit country to mining . All of those places that were spoken about are where a huge part of our history begun and they need to be protected and not sold off to the highest bidder. (Sigh , SMH)

[@kirkwilliams5740]

Excellent Knowledge

[@papacheezie2838]

# THANK U QUEEN MOTHER FOR THIS INFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGE AND GREAT VIBRATION AND VERY INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO ABOUT THE MAROON NATION OF JAMAICA AND ACROSS DIASPORA 1LUV KNOW THYSELF AND THY CREATOR WITH IN MUCH RESPECT GO OUT TOO THE MOST HIGH AND OUR ANCESTORS STORY 1LUV! KNOW THYSELF MY FAMILY 1LUV ! BLISSING! ASE'ASE '

[@jerryshinefeild6097]

This very interesting to hear because my family are maroon descendants and the other side of my family are from the gullah island off of South Carolina. It seems to me that both there history are similar, they even talk the same

[@sharonduncan3824]

I would love to see nanny of the maroon she was brave heroin

[@cynthiareid9289]

This woman is a true Gem 💎

[@gavin8tor]

True Life Lessons...Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee...

[@paulettelamont848]

Their a little history or connection about Nanny ..go through Mocho going to Thompson Town in Clarendon

[@faycalbougrine2581]

Very nice sister ,am from africa algeria and we never hurd of you and your suffering

[@emmanuelnkansah7719]

Please names are nana Kwadwo Akyampong kwasi

[@lucynickels8827]

I'm from Ghana 🇬🇭 and I know that the Jamaicans are our BLOOD

[@dy6682]

Opening music was good. Bless up. The majority of Jamaicans have become "Island Americans", hooked on KFC and fries. Both the Maroon history and Rasta cultures are totally unappreciated and despised by mainstream Jamaicans. We pretend we live in Brooklyn, NY.

[@barbarajohnson2075]

I was born in MooreTown. What is the name of this lady narrating? What she says is just how my Grand Mother Francis Barrant Valentine explained it. Yes there were several Nanny but our heroine was Grandy Nanny. other

[@isaackyere9417]

TELLING MY PEOPLE AFRICA WILL NEVER, NEVER SURRENDER ON TILL THE BONES ARE ROTTING.

[@alysiawilliams3040]

Absolutely amazing story# maroons#proudofmypeople

[@MrNTR1]

Quarshie is a GaDangme name. Tetteh Quarshie is one of the ancestor responsible for cocoa bean in Ghana today.

[@AI-mo6tx]

That’s a Arabic name correct ? Quraish, could they have been Muslim

[@Amatullah78]

Very possible. Many of the slave revolts were conducted by literate Muslims who used Arabic to communicate. In Guyana some were punished severely once their plots were discovered.

[@jamez6867]

Its actually Kwasi but the Europeans mispronounced it as Quashie. He was taken from the coastal Akan commuities before he was shipped to Portland, Jamaiaca. You can verify from checking out the Jamaican names associated with the days of the week which are of Akan origin.

[@Aya-hw1yh]

​@@AI-mo6txit's not an Arabic name.

[@ask4theupgrade359]

There are proud Maroon people throughout the Caribbean colonies and the Americas, who resisted slavery over the centuries. It started from the very beginning with the indigenous people of 1492 that were familiar with their land and escaped to the hills and from the very beginning with the first enslaved Africans in 1501 that were brought to the New World that would join them. Eventually, this would continue to play out throughout all the Americas. No matter when your enslaved African ancestors arrived, the Maroons were ready to welcome them into the resistance The word “maroon” derives ultimately from the Arawakan root word “simarabo” construed as 'fugitive', in the Arawakan language spoken by the Taíno people native to the island

[@julesgordon1109]

you should also talk about how the maroon made a deal with the oppressor to capture anyone who was fight for black liberation and one of those people was paul bogle. Why is it that up to this day the only people that is owed money by the british is the maroons????what was the deal really about????One cannot be a hero and sellout at the same time.

[@tahira1]

@23.30 she addresses this. Her people had to be protected at all costs. If it was up to Nanny they would have destroyed all of the British and saved all the enslaved. The Maroons would have eventually been defeated by the British sending a full army as they did in the Benin Empire and South Africa to the Boar and Zulu. Sellout is too strong a word, they had limited choices.

[@seanhouslin6187]

If nanny existed, she was Taino not from Africa. Tainos would have known the land for hundreds of years, relatively recent Africans would not. Camoflage was known by Amerindians - do not let this woman fool you that camoflage was brought by Africans and novel to the region.

[@bentleybogle9171]

@@seanhouslin6187 rubbish.

[@janecatherwood8861]

@@seanhouslin6187 History has proven that Africans we're in the Caribbean long before slavary .. War has been going on since the beginning of time so what are you saying Africans only learn about self defence when the went to the Caribbean ????

[@janecatherwood8861]

Really so Africans only learned how to defend themselves because when they we're moved to the Caribbean .. Well my love the environment & landscape in the Caribbean is the same as Africa .. War has been around as long as time so work it out

[@reconhill8384]

I can feel every blood gushing through my veins and stop in my brain

[@niilaryea8876]

Nana, Nene, Nii are all titles for Kings and Queens.