Afro-caribbean Continues The Worship Of Religious Beliefs
The Afro-Caribbean community in the UK means the British black population originating
in the British West Indies, which itself was descended from persons brought from Africa to the Americas as quesclaves between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century.
Because of the rise in the 1990s immigration to the UK from the countries of Africa, we also used this term to refer to British citizens of African descent, so the term encompasses today the concepts of African and Caribbean. The most common use of this term refers to any group of people living on British soil and adopting the habits, traditions and customs of the Caribbean culture.
The vast majority of Afro-Caribbean British is of Jamaican origin. However, Afro-Caribbean origin are a multitude of other smaller states, including the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Montserrat, Dominica, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Guyana, all located in South America, and Caribbean culture with a historically considered as part of the British colonies in this part of the globe. A number of them are British territories overseas, whose nationals are "citizens of a British territory overseas (British Overseas Territories citizen (en) or BOTC) and thus have to right of British citizenship since the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 (en).
The community is dispersed throughout the United Kingdom, although it is primarily and overwhelmingly concentrated in London, Birmingham and the West Midlands. The African-American communities are also important in other urban cities, including Manchester, Nottingham, Leicester, Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Cardiff. In these cities, the community is traditionally associated with a neighbourhood or area, such as Chapeltown in Leeds or St. Pauls in Bristol.
The first post-war immigrants from the Caribbean found themselves in something new and unusual situation with regard to food, in terms of its availability in the United Kingdom. In the following years, as the community developed and that imports of food became more readily accessible, grocery stores specializing in selling Caribbean products began to open in the streets of major British cities. There are currently Caribbean restaurants in most cities where a community exists, they offer traditional dishes of Caribbean cuisine, such as mutton curries, meatballs, akis and salted fish, bananas outbreaks, cabbage steamed.
The influx of Afro-Caribbeans in the United Kingdom was accompanied by the arrival of religious practices close to the North American religious tradition. In Britain, many Afro-Caribbean mobilities adhere to evangelical Protestant nonconformists in common such as Pentecostal or Seventh Day Adventist Church. They also, in many places in England, supported the new churches, often taken as and when they develop a relay function and social center for the community.
The conduct of worship in some of these churches is more akin to practices that African-American Catholic or Anglican liturgy, traditional English. Gospel music has also played a major role in British cultural life. The Afro-Caribbeans were often key players in the emergence of British gospel choirs, the most famous underresourced them being the London Community Gospel Choir.
Some Afro-Caribbean continues the worship of religious beliefs such as Rastafarianism, which originated and developed in Jamaica. The Rastafarian beliefs, symbols associated with the Rastafarian movement, such as dreadlocks and ganja, "the herb of wisdom", have far exceeded the boundaries of the community and were adopted by many young white Britons as well as other ethnic groups.
by: Barbara Herbert
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