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Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture

Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture

著者： Alexandria Miller
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Are you passionate about Caribbean history, its diverse culture, and its impact on the world? Join Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture as we explore the rich tapestry of Caribbean stories told through the eyes of its people – historians, artists, experts, and enthusiasts who share empowering facts about the region’s past, present, and future.

Strictly Facts is a biweekly podcast, hosted by Alexandria Miller, that delves deep into the heart and soul of the Caribbean, celebrating its vibrant heritage, widespread diaspora, and the stories that shaped it. Through this immersive journey into the Caribbean experience, this educational series empowers, elevates, and unifies the Caribbean, its various cultures, and its global reach across borders.

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  • Barrel Children And The Stories Caribbean Film Can Hold with Meschida Philip

    Barrel Children And The Stories Caribbean Film Can Hold with Meschida Philip
    2026/07/08
    Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts.A child grows up learning that love can arrive in a barrel, but comfort cannot. That tension sits at the heart of our conversation with Grenadian director, producer, and creative industry strategist Meschida Phillip, whose documentary work asks what migration costs families long after the plane takes off. We trace how the Grenada Revolution, early separation, and years of “waiting” shaped her sense of connection and pushed her toward filmmaking as a way to name what Caribbean families often keep silent. Meschida shares the story behind her feature documentary Scars of Our Mother’s Dreams, grounded in Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown’s concept of “barrel children,” where parents migrate for opportunity while children remain at home with relatives. We talk about emotional trauma, reunification, and why seeing these stories on screen lands differently than reading them. Meschida also pulls back the curtain on responsible documentary practice, from deep research and interviews to building a film that works as an archive and a conversation starter for Caribbean history, culture, and healing. We then zoom out to the film industry itself, including Caribbean Tales Media Group’s Cross-Continental Forum and what Black diaspora collaboration can look like when it’s intentional. Meschida breaks down the real barriers Caribbean filmmakers face funding infrastructure, banking access, co-production limits, and distribution networks and paints a vivid vision of Global South co-production funds, direct Caribbean Africa pipelines, and a market that rewards cultural specificity instead of asking creators to dilute it. Meschida Philip is a filmmaker, producer, creative-industry strategist, Executive Director of Mprojekts Creative Group, and Founder and Festival Director of the 12°N, 61°W Grenada Film Festival. She is a director, producer, and creative industries strategist working at the intersection of film production and screen industry development in the Caribbean. With over 20 years of professional experience, including more than a decade leading regional initiatives, her work focuses on positioning the Caribbean as an originating creative economy, capable of developing, financing, and exporting its own stories through equitable international co-production. Her work spans both content creation and industry development, with a focus on co-production frameworks, talent pipelines, and market access for creators in small island developing states.This episode was created in collaboration with Caribbean Tales Media Group to highlight the annual Cross-Continental Forum, a curated, decolonial co-production hub specifically designed to connect Black producers across Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe and the Americas. It offers a structured pathway from information sharing to treaty-driven deals and market access. As an intensive hybrid accelerator, it functions as a “strategic gateway” to co-productions, beginning with an online Accelerator covering legal, financial and distribution frameworks, followed by two in-person events including a pitch showcase.Editor's Note: Philips participated in the Cross-Continental Forum with Canary, a documentary project that was in development at the time. She is credited as the project’s director and co-producer. Scars of Our Mother’s Dreams was not the project presented at the Forum, however it was screened at the festival. Support the showConnect with Strictly Facts - Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Website Looking to read more about the topics covered in this episode? Subscribe to the newsletter at www.strictlyfactspod.com to get the Strictly Facts Syllabus to your email!Want to Support Strictly Facts?Rate & Leave a Review on your favorite platformShare this episode with someone or online and tag usSend us a DM or voice note to have your thoughts featured on an upcoming episode Donate to help us continue empowering listeners with Caribbean history and educationProduced by Breadfruit Media
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  • What If Caribbean Cuisine Funded Caribbean Futures with Taymer Mason

    What If Caribbean Cuisine Funded Caribbean Futures with Taymer Mason
    2026/06/24

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    Caribbean food travels the world as flavor, nostalgia, and restaurant culture but what if it also traveled as real economic infrastructure? We’re asking a harder question: how do we move from beloved recipes to Caribbean food systems that reduce import dependence, strengthen food security, and create durable industries across the region. I’m joined by Taymer Mason, a Barbadian food scientist and Caribbean product developer with more than 20 years of experience across food safety, kitchens, and innovation. Taymer breaks down why so many islands still carry a massive import bill even when breadfruit, cassava, and fruit trees are all around us, and why the missing piece is often not farming alone but systems: consistent raw materials, regional cooperation, accessible financing, shelf-life testing, packaging options, and reliable transport between islands.

    We also get practical about what “legacy products” look like, why shelf-stable ambient foods often scale better than cold-chain exports, and how standardizing recipes can protect quality as brands grow. Taymer shares eye-opening stories, from green seasoning selling better when people used it like a dip, to learning from boxed fufu as a convenience model, to reimagining moringa as an everyday seasoning that boosts nutrition. Then we zoom out to solutions: farmer-producer planning, government policy changes, white labeling pathways, CARICOM-style data sharing on crop gluts, and smarter diaspora investment that builds market pipelines, warehouses, and storefronts. If you care about Caribbean agriculture, sustainable food entrepreneurship, disaster resilience, and the future of Caribbean economies, this conversation is for you.

    Taymer Mason is a food scientist, cookbook author, and entrepreneur based in Barbados. She is the founder of Harbourvale Foods, a modern Caribbean vegan pantry brand built on clean-label formulation and plant-based food science. Her debut cookbook, Caribbean Vegan, has been in print for sixteen years and holds a starred Library Journal review. Taymer's work sits at the intersection of Caribbean culinary heritage and innovation, with a deep conviction that the region's food systems deserve both scientific rigour and world-class storytelling.

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  • Caribbean Futures Through Creative Power with Alistair Scott

    Caribbean Futures Through Creative Power with Alistair Scott
    2026/06/10

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    Caribbean culture is one of the most copied, quoted, and consumed forces on the planet and yet the Caribbean is still too often treated like a place to extract value from, not a place to build value with. That tension sits at the heart of my conversation with Alistair Scott, founder of the Diaspora Legacy Collective, as we dig into how Caribbean futures can be shaped through renewed connection with Africa and the global African diaspora for Caribbean American Heritage Month. We get specific about cultural and creative industries (CCIs) and why music, film, fashion, festivals, and digital storytelling should be treated as serious economic development strategy. That leads us into intellectual property rights, licensing, brand protection, and the unglamorous but critical reality that policy only works when governments invest in enforcement capacity.

    From there, we zoom out to the bigger architecture of Afro-Caribbean cooperation: new business modalities that make cross-diaspora partnerships easier, visa and mobility barriers that slow trade, and why language learning and education can function like infrastructure. Along the way, we challenge misinformation that distorts Pan-Africanism, lift up older cooperative models like partner and susu, and point to modern examples like YouTube creator networks and major cultural moments that prove collaboration already works when we let it. If you care about Caribbean history, Caribbean culture, the creative economy, diaspora development, or people-centered sustainability, you’ll leave with both a clearer diagnosis and a more practical vision.

    Alistair Scott is founder of the nonprofit, Diaspora Legacy Collective. He is also Principal Advisor at Synergy Ecosystems LLC, a coaching and connections service. A lifelong development generalist and Pan African educator, Alistair is passionate about applying a systems and sustainability lens to rethinking how we organize thriving economies and societies. His career over the last two decades has spanned extensive community development, tourism, workforce development, sales and education; and as a civil servant, entrepreneur and non-profit professional across the U.S and the Caribbean.

    He has built up expertise in fostering developing and deploying social capital, particularly when he led the build out of Basta’s Alumni Success workstream and also in his advisory of African diasporan entrepreneurs and young professionals in the diaspora. Alistair also maintains a blog on addressing socio-economic and African diasporan themes, including futuristic takes on countries like Jamaica and Haiti and published a fictional essay in the Atlantic Fellowship’s Moya magazine.

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    48 分
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