Norris R. McDonald | Maroons, minerals and Jamaica’s ‘symbolic nationalism’

Without the search for gold, expanded bauxite reserves, and the growing interest in lithium extraction, there would perhaps be far less urgency surrounding the Maroon land question in Accompong and the wider debate over ‘sovereignty’.What is unfolding today is not simply a constitutional disagreement. It is also a struggle over land, mineral wealth, political power, and historical memory.

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