81 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Abibifahodie Asafo (Black Liberation Warrior)

I’ve been thinking of them lately, the ‘nèg mawon’ aka maroons of Martinique. How determimed their spirit of liberation was!

I’ve returned from a short stay in the Caribbean island of Martinique where my plane landed on the 22nd may when many events were organised to mark the date of 22nd May 1848 when it was made known publicly that slavery of African people and their descendants was officially terminated.

I wanted to take that opportunity to acknowledge, to say thank you and to remember all the vaillant and heroic black African maroons and/or resistants in the Americas and Africas and other few places around the world, for their sacrifice and dedication to life and dignity in general and in particular of their own people, and without which many of my ancestors and probably many of their descendants which I’m a part of, would have still remained enslaved.

I feel I owe these noble souls, the fighting maroons aka ‘nèg mawon’ (black maroons) from Martinique and by extension from everywhere they happened to be fighting, i feel I owe them my freedom and my survival in the world. May their spirit of liberation never be forgotten!