Bahamian (period)
From Abaco in the north, to Inagua in the south, we are all Bahamian, period. A proud people with distinct dialect, cultural practices, and food ways, our cultural wealth is far greater than the globally-held paradisiacal view: we are much, much more than sun, sand, and sea—these islands are home to communities living full lives outside of the tourism bubble. When famed ethnomusicologist, Alan Lomax, landed in The Bahamas in search of the "African sound" he wrote, in dispatch, that these were the "fairy islands" because of the magic he encountered in the culture. We would have to agree: from the kitchen table, to children climbing fruit trees, and the "lick" of the goatskin drum, we have something special that you cannot bottle—our "Bahamianness."