Feasting with the ancestors

One of the things that people look forward to when they attend the January 6 Maroon celebrations in Accompong Town, St Elizabeth is to taste the unsalted cooked and roasted yam, chicken and pork. After the majority of food is taken by way of a procession to feed the ancestors at ‘Old Town’, people jostle, bump, bore, shout and scream just to get even a little piece. From leaves, from their bare palms, from paper, from plastic, from whatever they can find, they eat the piping hot victuals, partaking in the ancestral feast under and around the Kindah Tree. On Saturday, January 6, nothing had changed. The photos on this page speak for themselves.