Antigua & Barbuda
Capital · St John's
Three hundred and sixty-five beaches, a restored Georgian dockyard, and calypso that still carries the memory of the sugar estates.
Antigua & Barbuda at a glance
- Capital
- St John's
- Region
- Eastern Caribbean · Leeward Islands
- Currency
- East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
- Languages
- English · Antiguan Creole
- Dialling code
- +1 268
- Status
- Sovereign nation
The African connection
Sugar built this island and Africans were brought to cut it. By emancipation in 1834 the enslaved outnumbered the planters roughly ten to one, and Antigua freed them outright rather than through the apprenticeship other colonies used.
Key dates for Antigua & Barbuda
The dates this community marks — independence, emancipation, and the festivals that fill a hall wherever its people have settled.
Diaspora meets diaspora
AfricAsia began with Africans in Asia. The same story runs through every entry in this section — people of African descent building a life a long way from where their ancestors started.
If you are from Antigua & Barbuda and you are anywhere in Asia — studying, working, playing, passing through — there are people here who will know what you are asking before you finish the question.
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