Cuban women in Jamaica join the "challenge" on Africa Day
Kingston, Jamaica, 25 May 2020. Beyond the barriers imposed by language, Cuba has a common root with Jamaica, as with the rest of the English-speaking Caribbean countries: Africa. All islands in the Antilles share a past of pain, of split families, of men and women torn from their land and brought like beasts in crowded ships to these foreign islands on the other side of the Atlantic. Once here, they and their descendants were forced to work for the colonizer for centuries.