Jamaica: Creole and Jamaican Identity

Our educators don’t seem to understand that as long as we tell children that they ‘chat bad’ when they use their mother tongue, we are planting the seeds of low self-esteem.  And we will reap badness.  Or, perhaps, we do understand and that’s why we refuse to acknowledge Jamaican as a ‘proper-proper’ language.

Professor Carolyn Cooper explores the connection between Jamaican Creole and the African Diaspora.

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