August Mawnin Come: Happy Emancipation Day Jamaica

July 31st, 2008 |By Marvia Lawes in: Missioner Reflections |

Augus mawnin come again
Augus mawnin jubilee

Freedom come at last,
freedom come at last
freedom come at last and wat a jubilee!!

I had to pause for a while and share some of the memories that made me smile even though I feel like I want to do the opposite. August is my favourite month in Jamaica. It’s the month when all of who I am as a Black Jamaican woman means so much more to me. I owe most of the good parts to my mother..the not-so-good parts? Well I guess poor Mama tried her best:-) Anyway read more of my thoughts on Why I Love 1st of August - Jamaica’s Emancipation Day and leave me your thoughts. And let me warn you I did not translate the Jamaican tongue in there…

Jubilee, Jubilee…

Marvia

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2 Responses to “August Mawnin Come: Happy Emancipation Day Jamaica”

  1. Anthony Reddie Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:21 am

    Found the blog mucho interestingo! Your mother (mumma) reminds me a lot of my own. Full of stories - either apochyphal or literally true (and there is no differentiation between two. I think I learnt the function of ‘myth’ in narrative discourse long before I was taught it at University).
    But what I wanted to say was that I too was given Clinton V Black’s book to read, but by my favourite Auntie - My Auntie ‘Dotty’ my Mum’s only surviving (older) sister. She was the real cultural nationalist in our family when my Mum had her hands full looking after my younger brothers who were born 13 months apart (3 and 4 years younger than me), she would ‘take me off my mothers hands’ and we would go for walks and things and she would tell me all about Jamaica and my great, great, great Grandfather who was Primal healer from Ghana.
    I was always amused that Clinton V. Black was a White man! My copy was a maroon hardback! What was yours like?
    Thanks for the memory!
    AGR

  2. Marvia Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 9:59 am

    Dr. R!
    Thank you! And Happy 1st of August to you too.

    Interesting! So your Aunty give yuh a copy of Black too. Yes, my own was maroon hardcover. And proved too easy to read as my mother discovered. But it kept me totally fascinated with my roots.

    And I found it highly amusing later on in High School when I discovered that Mr. Black was White.

    A day such as this uproots memory…would that the collective memory of Jamaicans be stirred enough to restore our strong will to bring about positive changes in our nation.

    Peace

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