Most Garifuna people continue to live throughout multiple countries in Central America including Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. Bootsy Rankin was born in Belize in the town of Dangriga ...

While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, the culture plays a huge role in the country’s history. When a ship of enslaved Africans sank, the survivors reached ...

A collective that is preserving the sounds and culture of Afro-Indigenous people from Belize and Honduras will join the Brandeis community for a concert and residency this fall.. Garifuna culture was ...

Belize was granted its independence on September 21, 1981, centuries after the Garifuna people have been living autonomously in the south. Under International Law the Garifuna and Maya people can ...

Their independent culture persists to this day in communities in Belize, Honduras, and neighboring nations, where their African-inspired language, customs and music are preserved and continue to ...

For anyone visiting southern Belize at this time, the experience is unforgettable. Garifuna Settlement Day proudly showcases Garifuna culture and heritage. The streets are filled with the pulse of ...

Garifuna singers, dancers, and drummers perform in Hopkins, a small village in the Stann Creek District of Belize. Garifuna people are using music to revive their endangered language.

The Garifuna Collective is a globally acclaimed musical group from the Central American nation of Belize that first introduced global audiences to the unique Cultural fusion of traditional ...

Belize is a compact, politically stable country ... as a manatee plays in the Caribbean waters below. But it is the Garifuna people who bring me to this spot. Their ancestors were shipwrecked ...