Status Updates From Brown Girl in the Ring

“The African powers, child. The spirits. The loas. The orishas. The oldest ancestors. You will hear people from Haiti, Cuba, Brazil and so call them different names. Them is the ones who does carry we prayers to God Father, for he too busy to listen to every single one of we on earth talking at he all the time. And no matter what we call it, Santeria or Voudun (etc), we all doing the same thing. Serving the spirits."

Learnt about some folklore

Good so far, going to take my time with this one. Enamoured with the different dialects, especially the Caribbean ones as they remind me of my grandparents.

“And how come oonuh nah use a swine heart? Ain’t is that you have all them pig farms for?”

Good so far, going to take my time with this one. Enamoured with the different dialects, especially the Caribbean ones as they remind me of my grandparents.

"Oonuh need a heart transplant for she, and she nah let you put no trenton in she body?”

" from since slavery days, we people get in the habit of hiding we business from we own children even, in case a child open he mouth and tell somebody story and get them in trouble. secrecy was survival, oui? "