Live artist and Poet Khadijah Ibrahiim travelled to Jamaica to research arts, culture and heritage  - here is a conversation in Kingston Jamaica addressing the topic of faith, rituals through the rites of passages of the living and the dead - to funerals, Nine Night - Set-Up  - Wakes in Caribbean traditions - steeped in belief of spirits [duppy] and supernatural happenings. 

Note; The opening Kumina folk song [ring play] from the collection 'Jamaica Folk Trance Possession - [I am not the owner of it]

Faith and Rituals in Jamaican folk Culture [Dead n Wake]

Khadijah Ibrahiim is a world traveller, poet, live artist, theatre maker and published writer, who combines' inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre. Through a multi-layer of rich sounds, movement and voice she [recreate a soundtrack of an African diaspora expression]  that celebrate the past and present.

Khadijah Ibrahiim

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