Diaspora in verse
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- Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith praised journalist Garfield Angus for his poem about the country’s global diaspora.
- She said the work captures the strength of Jamaica’s connection with Jamaicans living overseas in a distinctly Jamaican voice.
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Jamaica’s minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, praised Garfield Angus, a senior reporter at the Jamaica Information Service, for his literary work, *Out Of Many, One Global Family: The Diaspora Rise*.
The inspirational narrative poem celebrates the enduring bond between Jamaica and its diaspora around the world. Johnson Smith said she deeply appreciated the work, adding that it captures the strength of that connection in a distinctly Jamaican voice.
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