Dominica

thumb Dominica, also known as Wai‘tu kubuli, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. Quotes Dominica, also known as Nature Island, used to be called Wai’tu kubuli by the indigenous Kalinago people pre-colonisation and chattel slavery. It means “Tall is Her Body”, a sentiment true to her immense mountain ranges. It is the only home to the endangered sisserou parrot, recently stolen without the consent of the people: a majority dispossessed Black people who are all the progeny of enslaved Africans. It is a beautiful land of many waters: rivers, stream, creeks, boiling lakes, and all the wildlife and earthen ecosystems that shape them. MerriCatherine, “Poisoning Wai’tu kubuli’s Water & Staining the Air: Dominica and Geothermal Colonialism” Though Dominica’s official maroon community, known as the Neg Mawon, was considered much smaller than [similar communities in Jamaica and Brazil]…the Neg Mawon persisted in the woods of Dominica, outlasting their Saint Vincent and Jamaican counterparts by twenty years. Neil C. Vaz, “Maroon Emancipationists: Dominica’s Africans and Igbos in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1814” External links