The Lion Soul´s musical group, comprised of Pan-Africanist artists led by the Baptist reverends Onkphra Wells and John Howell, represented Barbados in the 2018 edition of the famous Caribbean Festival, which is dedicated annually to a Caribbean guest nation and is celebrated in the city of Santiago de Cuba, where representatives of several islands show the diversity of their arts and culture; several performances in public squares, the Friendship House and the Caribbean House proved the quality of the group during a whole week that lasted the also called Fire Festival. The occasion was also favorable for the Pan-Africanist leaders to establish working contacts with the cultural authorities and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples in that provincial capital, identified as the Caribbean city of Cuba.