Africa’s Big Wide of Africa Going up the Caribbean

Augustine Ogbo serves as a doctor, healing patients in clinics on the Caribbean island of St Lucia.

When he returned to his home in Rodney Bay village, he enters his second work – as the owner and Solo Chef of the Nigerian Takeaway.

“Socus SOP and fufu, very famous … they love jollof rice,” Dr OGBO has reduced the list of popular customers.

29, from Nigeria – 230 million people crossing the Atlantic for St Lucia – the number of 180,000 people – to train as a doctor in 2016.

He stopped his abscession at home, whose name was Africa, 2022, after being asked unweholdly by his friends in St..

Takeaway is now flourishing, Dr OGBO tells BBC, not just because his customers think that food is fun.

“They know that we all have the same origin. Therefore, much time, they want to communicate,” explains Dr OGBO, adding that interest in Africa has grown about 10 years ago.

St Lucia is not alone in this item.

In the other side of the Caribbean, the desire to re-connect to African heritage seemed to be strengthened a few years ago.

People across the Caribbean pride for the pride of Africa through food, clothing, and transportation, while governments and centers from both Atlantic-based roots have faced economic obligations.

Africa becomes a long-term presence in the Caribbean.

The essential part of the islanders goes to the enslaved residents of West and Central Africa, who were caribbean by European suppliers in the 17th and 18th centurers.

Slavery was amended on the Caribbean in the case of the 1800s, while the independence of Europe’s power arrived in the next century.

Interests of enslaving people maintain some African traditions, but they made great progress in the standalone culture, differ in the island to the island.

In the past, there have been large campaigns to promote African pride, as Dorbrene O’marde, in charge of the Antigua Support and Barbuda Reparations, said.

“It was especially powerful in the 1930s yet, and again in the 1960s – we saw a major defensing in harmony with the [American] He says, “He said, talking to BBC on the island of Antigua.

Mr. O’marde believes the Caribbean is witnessing the renewed, promised “Pan-AfricanLism” translation (a word used to describe the idea that Africans should be viewed).

“Rise above mental and cultural bodies and now we are talking about the economic names, such as a solid way to travel between the Caribbean and Africa,” he said.

“We are in a different category now for the Pan-AfricanLism – one that is not going to go forward.”

One thing that distinguishes the ideological wave of African pride in those who were available before communication resources.

Dennis Howard, a Culture Ministry of Accusation and Cultures at the University of the West Indies, the “Important” Jamaican population connects to Africa with Tiktok platforms.

“People learned more about the black history without slavery,” tells the BBC at his home in Jamaican Capital, Kingston.

Mr. Howard points to the AFROSEATS END, music from Nigeria and Ghana.

You feel that in Jamaica is directly, the popularity of Afroseats is partly to the desires of re-connecting.

“Through music videos, [Jamaicans] They saw some African portions like Jamaica and are improved. We had a African concept like this place where it returns and is a dirty road … music changes that. “

Asked by the viewing of other Jamaica critics – that the Islanders need not return their African estate as they were equitable, their Jamaican assets emphasize that both different.

“Our whole culture is Africa, with a minor Indian and European spraying and Chinese. But a large part of our culture,” he said.

Those who rely on their African values are not just traditional foods, but they actually find planes and examine the first continent.

Tourism Authority in Ghana – As soon as the largest slavery site in the slaves were sent to the Caribbean – Tell BBC to “a significant increase in the islands in recent years.

Similarly, the Werer Gruun, South Africa Consular to the Bahamas, says in the past two or three years, his office has seen the increase in the local South Africa, Ghana and Kenya.

“I see many interest in Safaris and I think people began to see that South Africa and other African countries were actually well improved,” Mr Gruner said.

Even Burkina Faso, a world of economic crashing under the most well-known tourism’s tourism, evidently in the bucket list. Mr. O’marde says that some of the Countrypype, want to visit the country due to the Pan-African Leanings of the Pan-African Lealings of its Suroé, Brahim Trahor.

Arriving continent in the Caribbean country, however, it can be difficult, and more often, the travelers are compelled to fly through Europe.

Earlier this year, in a talk where he referred to “a daughter of Africa”, Barbados Mia Mottges asked the construction of “Air and Sea Bridges” between Africa and Caribbean.

“Let’s make these changes, not just find Kingdom Heads, but to the common people who wish to trade, go, and build up the future,” he said.

Important facilities such as African Union, African Development Bank (Afan Development Bank (AFDB) and African Excental Bank (areximbank) worked “Tradium”, Memorandum of understanding and their Caribbean partners.

Areveximank says trading between the two districts can jump from $ 730m (£ 540m) to $ 1.8BN (£ 1.33nn) in 2028, provided for appropriate conditions.

But now, Africa and the Caribbean have other lowest indicators in the world with transport infrastructure, the quality of property and banking, according to land bank.

In an attempt to reduce trade, principalities of Grenada and the Bahamas this year, call Africa and the Caribbean to introduce them the budget.

The Bahamamian Prime Minister Philip Davis told the Afrieximank meeting in Nigeria to “consider our Dickon Mitchell,” when the Grenada Mitchell could confirm that our partners, but as members of the Global global “.

Finding more than 60 countries to link and implement the standard system would not be easy for feat, but Mitchell said this should be done if the regions would control [their] your future “.

Back in St Lucia, Dr Ogbo says his efforts to bring Uduku, a fufu and JOLOF to the local unemployment but is suitable for strengthening the relationship between Africa and the Caribbean.

In June, the President of Nigeria Bola Tinuzu has signed various covenants partnerships during the State Trial and Dr OGBO sees African Chops as an extension.

“I can say that I work hand with the Nigerian government and even St Lucian government to encourage African culture,” he said.

The doctor and businessman now try to improve her food business full-time – and hope that “cultural swap” between Africa and Caribbean is from power to power.

“It’s amazing!” He is the one. “I’m so glad for that.”

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