The historic Accompong City in St. Elizabeth seeks to spice up its neighborhood tourism effort by cultural actions akin to their annual Accompong Maroon Celebrations which attracts a whole lot of worldwide guests annually.
This yr’s celebration on January sixth and is a significant calender occasion from each Jamaicans and vacationer from so far as Germany and Africa. Individuals from so far as England, Canada, United States of America and even from Kenya in Africa attends the occasion in St. Elizabeth om an annual foundation.
As a measure to boost funds in direction of the neighborhood’s growth, every customer to the Accompong Maroon Celebrations pay an admission payment to enter the festivity, which was absent at earlier celebrations. Colonel Ferron Williams stated a few of the gate receipts will probably be used to fund a brand new training fund, and one other portion will probably be used to partially finance a Grade Six Achievement Take a look at (GSAT) scholar and a Grade 9 Achievement Take a look at (GNAT) scholar throughout the neighborhood.
Often known as the mom of all 4 Maroon settlements in Jamaica, Accompong City is nestled between the parishes of St. James and Trelawny and boasts some of the genuine experiences that can’t be replicated anyplace else because of the nature of its existence. The pleasant and alluring residents are precise descendents of enslaved Africans who fled plantations from throughout Jamaica through the interval of slavery.
The time period ‘Maroon’ was used to largely through the sixteenth -18th century to explain black slaves who had ran away from plantations or who had change into fugitives.
The annual Accompong Maroon Celebrations is widely known on January 6 to commemorate the birthday of their former chief Kojo. Kojo fought with the British for 60 years earlier than the signing of a Peace Treaty in 1738.
The celebration begins with the trumpeting of the abeng horn, summoning all of the Maroons to assemble like they did over 250 years in the past. The Abeng Horn is an previous powder horn tailored from its use for carrying musket powder to an instrument used to speak with Maroons over many miles within the Cockpit terrain.
