Afro-Jamaican Erotic

Afro-Jamaicans comprise approximately 92% of the Jamaican population per the 2011 STATIN census — one of the most demographically homogeneous African-descended national populations in the Americas, comparable to Haiti and the broader Caribbean Anglophone island states. The community descends primarily from approximately 800,000+ enslaved Africans brought to British colonial Jamaica between the 1660s (after the British took the island from Spain in 1655) and 1807 (the British Atlantic slave-trade abolition), with source populations from West Africa (predominantly Akan/Coromantee from the Gold Coast — the Akan demographic and cultural contribution is particularly important in Jamaican-Maroon communities and Jamaican linguistic-cultural heritage including the patois lexicon, naming traditions, and religion-syncretic Kumina), plus West-Central African (Bantu-Kongo) and Igbo source populations. Post-1834 emancipation, the Afro-Jamaican population has remained demographically dominant due to limited subsequent non-African immigration. Jamaica is the cultural source of reggae, dancehall, ska, and rocksteady musical traditions; of Rastafari religious tradition; and of widely-influential Jamaican-Caribbean cuisine, language (Jamaican patois, an English-lexified creole), and athletic and intellectual achievement.