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Kumina King

THE Kumina experience has always been shunned by many, who view it as a form of obeah, but to Oliver "Bongo Baucho" Barrett, King of Kumina, it is a part of the African culture which has always been his way of life. "People tend to look at it negatively.

A century of miracles

HIS mother died when he was six and his father died when he was a teenager. At the age of 21 he almost lost his life. Today, he celebrates over a century of life. He says it was a miracle which kept him alive at 21 and that luck has stayed with him...


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