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The following is an excerpt of the PUBLIC LECTURE made by Chairman and Founder of the Re:Imagine Jamaica Project, Dr. Hume Johnson at the Jamaica High Commission in London, June 17, 2014. In her lecture, Dr. Johnson argued that Jamaica holds a strong position globally in terms of symbolic and cultural narratives yet remains poor. In short, the impoverishment of Jamaica is out of sync with its fame. She asks how can this… Read More
BY SABRINA CASERTA Founder and Chair of The Re:Imagine Jamaica Project, Dr Hume Johnson will be the keynote speaker at the fourth biennial Jamaican Diaspora UK (JDUK) national conference to be held June 13-15, 2014 at the Centennial Centre in, Edgbaston Birmingham. The conference, to be staged under the theme, ‘Our Heritage, Our Legacy: Working to build a Sustainable Diaspora Movement’, will focus on reciprocal linkages between Jamaica and its diaspora in… Read More
By HUME N. JOHNSON, PHD This is part 2 of a two part blog series in which I talk about Jamaica’s Soft Power. They are based on a presentation I delivered on February 20- 21, 2013 at the Opening of a Sports Museum at the GC Foster College of Sports and Physical Education, Spanish Town, Jamaica – the first of its kind in the Caribbean, following which was a Sports Symposium where … Read More
By Hume N. Johnson, PhD This is the first of two posts that I will use to focus on Jamaica’s soft power. They are based on a presentation I delivered on February 20- 21, 2013 at the Opening of a Sports Museum at the GC Foster College of Sports and Physical Education – the first of its kind in the Caribbean, following which was a Sports Symposium where academics, politicians and sports… Read More
Re-IMAGINE JAMAICA 