{"id":47770,"date":"2024-08-18T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-am-an-igbo-man-jamaican-reggae-legend-buju-banton-reveals\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:05:43","slug":"i-am-an-igbo-man-jamaican-reggae-legend-buju-banton-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/i-am-an-igbo-man-jamaican-reggae-legend-buju-banton-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am an Igbo man\u2019 \u2013 Jamaican reggae legend, Buju Banton reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jamaican reggae legend, Buju Banton, has revealed that he has Igbo heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking recently on the \u2018Drink Champs\u2019 podcast co-hosted by N.O.R.E and DJ EFN, Banton stated that his tribe, Maroons originated from the Igbo tribe of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that their Indigenous land is now being threatened by the current Jamaican government which is bringing Chinese and other foreigners into their region to displace them.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOur Indigenous way of life and our land are being threatened by the current government of Jamaica which seeks to bring Chinese and other nationalities into the Cockpit region which is an Indigenous sacred region to usurp us the Maroons as the warriors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaroons are some of the Indigenous warriors on my Island. We fought the British relentlessly. We are called Blackmaroons. My generation originated from Nigeria. I am an Igbo man according to my bloodline.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Reggae icon, Buju Banton shares his Igbo heritage pic.twitter.com\/rvmWZdaPar<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IGBO History &amp; Facts (@IgboHistoFacts) August 18, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018I am an Igbo man\u2019 \u2013 Jamaican reggae legend, Buju Banton reveals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican reggae legend, Buju Banton, has revealed that he has Igbo heritage. Speaking recently on the \u2018Drink Champs\u2019 podcast co-hosted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23799,4,15],"tags":[695,8,23801,23800,171,7016,24287,776,202,180,24288,296],"class_list":["post-47770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buju-banton","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-i","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-banton","tag-buju","tag-entertainment","tag-igbo","tag-jamaican","tag-legend","tag-man","tag-news","tag-reggae","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}