As a people our ancestor’s trial through slavery shaped our metal to make us who we are. Therefore why be deemed a second rate African when you can be a first rate Afro-Caribbean? In our ancestral Africa there is age old history of fractional division through tribal feuding, different languages, religions and superstitions, and the effect of European colonialism across the continent only added to divisive tribalism - perhaps be design. However, by contrast, in the Caribbean, the consequence of British colonialism was that as a region Afro-Caribbeans emerged as one tribe, overwhelmingly of one faith in Christianity as a non-violent and tolerant religion.