In a short but striking video, Jamaican reggae legend Buju Banton speaks of his ancestral name—rooted in the Igbo heritage of West Africa. He talks about the freedom fight of Jamaica. About how it once freed itself from the British monarchy and, in that moment, started to rebuild its own Nature–Nurture–Culture framework.
A way of life.
A rhythm.
A way of raising children, of resisting systems, of finding value in self and soil.
Jamaica, like Haiti, could almost be called a West African country in the Western Hemisphere. Not just because of ancestry—but because of the deeply rooted cultural continuity it managed to protect and recreate. The music, the spirituality, the language, the resistance.
But Buju also speaks of what is happening now.
How modern government structures—designed in the image of Western capitalism and democracy—are eroding the island’s authentic way of life.
How the neurotypical global framework is being imposed on a neurodiverse people.
How generations grow up unaware of their inner value, their true heritage, and their own way of structuring the world.
“It’s easy to rule people who don’t know who they are.”
– Buju Banton
In Suriname their was also a group able to keep close to their ancestors heritage and systems through resistance:
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