Bahamas
Capital · Nassau
Seven hundred islands, Junkanoo drums before dawn, and a nation shaped by Loyalist planters, their enslaved, and the sloops that outran everyone.
Bahamas at a glance
- Capital
- Nassau
- Region
- Northern Caribbean · Atlantic archipelago
- Currency
- Bahamian dollar (BSD)
- Languages
- English · Bahamian Creole
- Dialling code
- +1 242
- Status
- Sovereign nation
The African connection
Roughly nine in ten Bahamians are of African descent. Junkanoo — cowbells, goatskin drums, whistle and brass through the streets of Nassau — descends from the brief Christmas holidays the enslaved were allowed.
Key dates for Bahamas
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 Bahamas 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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