Jabari’s People Turns a Familiar Cultural Premise Into a Deeper Story About Connectedness

According to Jamaicans.com, For generations, Jamaican families living overseas have turned to a familiar solution when a young person needs a change of environment. They send them back home. Sometimes it is about discipline or getting a young person away from influences that have the adults in their lives worried. Sometimes it is about perspective, reconnecting them with family and culture, or exposing them to a different way of life. And sometimes several of those things are wrapped up together. The circumstances differ from family to family, but beneath the practice is often an unspoken belief that Jamaica has something the young person needs. Maybe it is even a little of that “natural mystic” Bob Marley sang about, something in the land, culture and community that can reconnect you to parts of yourself you did not know were missing. It is something many Jamaicans across the diaspora will recognise, whether they