UWI senior lecturer calls for Jamaican Patwa to be enshrined in new constitution
Blake, associate dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Mona, is calling on the Constitution Reform ...
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Will Patois become Jamaica's official language?
Writing for the BBC, African journalist Mark Wilberforce said "it is not hard these days to hear Ghanaians talking a little Jamaican Patois". Last month Mark Golding cited Patois's importance in ...
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Jamaican poet Velma Pollard, whose melodious writing paid homage to the Patwa language, passes on
"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...