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The Yoruba roots of the popular traditional Ettu dance of Jamaica

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Caribbean is truly blessed with unique different cultures with most tracing their roots to Africa

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As enslaved Africans were transported from the shores of the continent to forcefully work on plantations in the Caribbean some centuries ago, so did they also take their traditions, culture and values which are, to date, still being practiced. Be it cuisine, music,
dance or language, some elements and traces of African culture are imbibed in them.

In Jamaica, Ettu both describes the dance and the communities of Pell River, Cauldwell and Kendall in Hanover where people of Nigerian ancestry settled. The Ettu people
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