Bahamas History

People Of Bahamas

The people of Bahamas are quite humorous and helpful in nature, those who love to celebrate life to the fullest. The inhabitants settled in Bahamas primarily are of West African origin blended with European colonial influences. Among the 300,000 people residing here the white population seems to have come down from the Loyalists, Eleutheran adventurers and sailors. The people of Bahamas speak English, which is their local resident language.

Arts, Culture and Music Of Bahamas

Take pride in the Bahamas rich cultural legacy, exhuberant artistic creation and euphonic native tunes thereby upkeeping one's spirits who venture to this destination.

Go gaga over the traditional Bahamian Goombay beats resonating with African rhythms, Caribbean Calypso and English folk songs that speaks much about the place. Goombay derives from the Bantu word for "rhythm," that describes about the goatskin drum used for playing rolling rhythm either in the weddings or funerals that were held in this place.

Religious hymns came into existence during the Loyalist period that was much in similar with the American slave songs. In worship place listen to the African-American gospel and European classical devotional songs that exudes the best cultural expression of the town. Congregational singing with hand clapping, rhythmic possession and spiritual dancing are

something one should indulge to while being in a church.Participate in the cultural festival of Junkanoo as you get to see colorful parade with costumed people dancing to the tunes of cowbells, drums and whistles. This major festival is celebrated at the end of December till the first of December.

FLAG OF BAHAMAS

The Bahamas Flag has a black triangle towards the left hand side which symbolizes the feature of “unity” among the localities residing there, the blue stripes at the top and bottom of the flag towards the right of the traingle indicates towards the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and lastly the gold stipe signifies the sandy shores of the island.

ECONOMY OF BAHAMAS

The economy of Bahamas reckons mainly on tourism and offshore banking that brings forth foreign exchange earnings. The country has some of the best export oppurtunities especially in automobile parts, restaurants,medical supplies and electronic goods. The best U.S. export opportunities remain in the traditional areas of foodstuffs and manufactured goods. The Bahamas also acquire distillation and transshipment of petroleum to several regions. The agriculture and fisheries industry add a little value to the GDP growth in the sector.

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