Trinidad & Tobago
Capital · Port of Spain
Birthplace of the steelpan, calypso and soca — and the first country in the world to make Emancipation Day a national holiday.
Trinidad & Tobago at a glance
- Capital
- Port of Spain
- Region
- Southern Caribbean
- Currency
- Trinidad & Tobago dollar (TTD)
- Languages
- English · Trinidadian Creole
- Dialling code
- +1 868
- Status
- Sovereign nation
The African connection
The steelpan was invented here in the 1930s and 40s out of discarded oil drums, after colonial bans on African drumming pushed Carnival percussion first to bamboo, then to metal. It is the only acoustic instrument invented in the twentieth century.
Key dates for Trinidad & Tobago
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 Trinidad & Tobago 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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