Nanny is one of the most famous leaders of the Maroons, warriors who fought across the “New World,” including in South America, the United States and the Caribbean, resisting slavery in uprisings.

SINCE confirming his Maroon roots, Hollywood stuntman/ film-maker Roy T Anderson has been on a quest to highlight and preserve this aspect of Jamaican history. The New Jersey-based Anderson was in ...

Jamaican Maroons wait to ambush an approaching British military column circa 1795 (image: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) ... Ms Dynamite in Search of Nanny Maroon will be shown on Sunday ...

She is known as Nanny Queen of the Maroons, and is a heroine, a folk hero who featured somewhere in the First or Second Maroon War between the runaway Africans and the British between 1731 and 1739.

In the pantheon of Jamaica’s seven National Heroes, Nanny of the Maroons is the only woman. “Grandie Nanny,” as she is called, a middle-aged, unsmiling woman with cutlass in hand, is commonly ...