Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess

Interesting and vital look at the life and legacy of Queen Nanny of the Maroons in Jamaica and the African diaspora. Explores the events around this community of enslaved Africans defeating the British army - the best army in the world at the time - to establish free settlements in the Jamaican mountains. Attempts to tease out the oral history from supernatural legends, together with testimony from surviving Maroon communities. In exploring her legacy, it includes a wide range of viewpoints from historians, anthropologists, athletes, feminists, politicians and local schoolchildren, to piece together the jigsaw of this now recognised national heroine. Her reputation as a visionary and mighty chieftess is well deserved.