Barbados
Capital · Bridgetown
The island that removed the British monarch and became a republic in 2021 — Crop Over, flying fish, and Bussa with his chains broken above the highway.
Barbados at a glance
- Capital
- Bridgetown
- Region
- Eastern Caribbean · Lesser Antilles
- Currency
- Barbadian dollar (BBD)
- Languages
- English · Bajan Creole
- Dialling code
- +1 246
- Status
- Sovereign nation
The African connection
Barbados was the model the English copied across the Caribbean: the first colony to build a full sugar-and-slavery economy, and the source of the 1661 slave code later exported to Jamaica and the Carolinas. Bussa's 1816 rebellion is now national memory.
Key dates for Barbados
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.
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