Talk:Garifuna
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I am a garifuna person presently residing in the US.The person who wrote this article and posted it on the net need to do far more research before putting my race on the net the way he wants it to be.I am almost sure that he don't even know his cultural history but is hurried to put what he think is fact about my people on the web.
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75.16.46.213 09:05, 9 November 2007 (UTC)jomo~08 Nov. 200875.16.46.213 09:05, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Well, I don't really have any definitive answers for anyone, and I am hoping that someone might be able to give me some information. I would really just like to bring up the idea that we shouldn't believe everything that we hear and everything that we're taught in school because even history is biased. There is an ancient African Prince (ca.1300's) named Prince Abubakari II who wrote a book about expeditions he funded to a place that is 28 sailing days off of the coast of Africa, (the same exact route that Cristopher Columbus sailed years later in 1492). Many people dispute this idea, but there is documented proof that it is true. It's funny how that isn't something that we learn in school, though. Anyway if this account is true, then African people from the ancient city of Mali, modern day Senegal, were actually the first to arrive in the America's in the 1300's. Lopez de Gomara and Peter d'Anghiera both write in their accounts of their initial visits to the Americas that they encountered people that they recognized as Africans. Also, there is the questionable quote in the account of Vazco Nunez de Balboa, the "first" explorer to cross the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean, that he encountered Africans in the area. This brings me to my next point. The area that all of these accounts come from is near an area we now know as Belize. If you know anything about Belize, it is a country bordered by Mexico and Guatemala, and home to a small population of people known as the Garifuna. The Garifuna is unique in that no one really knows how they came to be in Belize. Modern education tells us that a slave ship wrecked in the area and all the slaves escaped, hid and thrived. However, I was told by a credible source that her Mother tells her that they come from a city on the coast of Africa, Mali, (which, ironically is the place from where Prince Abubakari's tale, or legend as modern history liked to call it, begins and tells a similar story), that they're kingdom sent them on a conquest to see if they could find a shorter route to a worthy trading port, and they landed on inhabited islands, and stayed there. I don't know how accurate I am, and I really don't care. I just want to put a little bit of a bird in your ear that everything isn't what it seems. If you want to find out more, there is a book. "They Came Before Columbus", by Ivan van Sertima. This should help some. I'm reading it right now. It's just fueling my fire... sooner or later they're gonna give me a doctorates degree, too and then it's own.. i'm letting everybody know the Truth! Good luck.
The story behind the Garifuna people as told on this page is wrong (see garifuna.org). I'm not an expert on the subject, but there has been a lot of talk in the media as a consequence of a CD release by the Garifuna Collective (directed by Andy Palacio; called Watiná). There seems to be a concensus across the board (and from the Garifuna people themselves) that the story on this page is the real history: RPS report. Other independent sources in the media have confirmed this story (eg. Songlines, a UK world music magazine) and at the least I think the story on the RPS page should be adapted or linked from this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nilinator (talk • contribs) 01:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Source for Population
Does anyone have a source for the estimated 200,000? I found this source [1] saying the the Garifuna population was about 500,000. LaNicoya 21:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "related groups" info removed from infobox
For dedicated editors of this page: The "related Groups" info was removed from all {{Infobox Ethnic group}} infoboxes. Comments may be left here. Ling.Nut 22:54, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
