Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Capital · Kingstown
Homeland of the Garifuna — the Black Caribs who fought the British for decades before exile, and whose descendants now live along the Central American coast.
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines at a glance
- Capital
- Kingstown
- Region
- Eastern Caribbean · Windward Islands
- Currency
- East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
- Languages
- English · Vincentian Creole
- Dialling code
- +1 784
- Status
- Sovereign nation
The African connection
Shipwrecked and escaped Africans married into the Kalinago here, creating the Garifuna. After Chatoyer's defeat in 1797 more than four thousand were deported to Roatán — the origin of every Garifuna community in Honduras, Belize and Guatemala today.
Key dates for Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
The dates this community marks — independence, emancipation, and the festivals that fill a hall wherever its people have settled.
Diaspora meets diaspora
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