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The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

Written by: Know Your Caribbean
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Coming from the much loved platform Know Your Caribbean, this podcast is geared entirely to telling the stories of the Caribbean, it's history and culture, food, music and more. Including the fan favourite Gangsta Stories from the Caribbean. Here to uplift, empower through education in ways that make you feel connected to yourself. So get to know yourself through Know Your Caribbean.



Hosted by Fiona Compton with special guests.

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Episodes
  • 90 Seconds into Oblivion - The Mount Pelée Eruption in Martinique

    90 Seconds into Oblivion - The Mount Pelée Eruption in Martinique
    Feb 19 2026

    In this episode, we dive into the devastating 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the Caribbean island of Martinique—a disaster that obliterated the thriving city of Saint-Pierre in minutes. Through eyewitness accounts and historical insight, we explore how warning signs were missed, how a deadly pyroclastic surge changed volcanic science forever, and why this eruption remains one of the most catastrophic in recorded history.


    Hosted by Fiona Compto, founder of Know Your Caribbean

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    22 mins
  • The First Moko Jumbie

    The First Moko Jumbie
    Sep 23 2025
    In this episode we explore the first written record of a Moko Jumbie - a stilt walker - in the Caribbean. Through the exploration of the record we cover the arrival of 3 Slave ships from 3 different parts of Africa, life of the Kalinago and Garifuna people as their land is slowly yet violently being taken away, African music and masquerade, and how 440 African children were separated from their families and sent to Saint Vincent.

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    48 mins
  • Obeah, Murder, and Prostitution in the Post Emancipation Caribbean

    Obeah, Murder, and Prostitution in the Post Emancipation Caribbean
    May 16 2025

    In 1840's Saint Lucia the tides have turned for Black women on the island. Abandoning the plantations that enslaved them, they took to the streets as sex workers taking agency over their bodies. White priests ventured not into the depths of the countryside to indoctrinate the Christian faith, and so in the enclaves of the countryside, African spirituality prevails. Here we uncover an obsessive man who seeks the help of an Obeah man to conquer an infatuation, which leads to murder.


    Mid episode music by the people of Oleon, Deanery Saint Lucia, near Mabouya Valley

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    32 mins
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