TUE 27TH AUG (3-5PM ET/8-10PM UK)
We’re excited to speak with Alex Moore-Minott, a Jamaican Maroon Rights and Cultural Activist, Oral Historian, Myal Priest, Herbalist and Dancer. We’ll be speaking on a range of topics including:
• Maroon History
• Lokono-Arawak & Taino Culture
• Myal, Kumina, Pocomania & Obeah
• An overview of the spiritual philosophies of Myal
• Our relationship with nature
• Sacred sites and their significance
• Activism work around overturning Obeah laws
• Importance of reclaiming sacred lands
• Simple rituals for daily living to improve spiritual development
Alex is a true-born Windward Maroon. He has a Bsc. with Hons in International Relations from the University of the West Indies. He is first and foremost an agriculturalist, known for his work with the University of the West Indies concerning the grassroots cultivation of cannabis especially as it concerns the benefit to young Jamaicans. He is a cultural activist, Maroon rights activist and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Accompong Maroons, and is Oral Historian, Dancer and Herbalist of the renowned Granny Nanny Cultural Group, and in 2018 successfully led an effort to secure the repatriation of cultural material from the Smithsonian.
He is the leader of the internationally accredited West Indian Tribal Society which has observer status for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC). Alex was the apprentice and student of the great Maroon leader the late Major Charles Aarons, and he is the indigenous representative for the Portland Environment Action, and a tireless advocate for the land and water rights of Maroons and other native Jamaican People. On the 12th of August, 2023 Alex was formally initiated into the Myal Priesthood of Jamaica and became the named successor of an ancient priestly lineage stretching back into Jamaica’s precolonial past.