OUR HERITAGE

4. a staple food in many tropical regions; very rich in starch, which transforms to sugars when very ripe.
8. a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a field.
12. a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s
15. & Field any sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing
16. a person from whom one is descended
17. a Jamaican dance performed primarily to celebrate Emancipation Day, whose music has both European and African elements
18. a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages.

1. a festival derived from Akan slaves, still practised in the Caribbean islands that are or were part of the British West Indies.
2. a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
3. an afro-centric religious and social movement based in the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
5. Steady a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.
6. a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora.
7. a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies, performed by four couples in a rectangular formation
9. the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
10. features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance
11. a traditional Jamaican folk form involving dance, music and religious practices and beliefs.
13. a fruit that was imported to Jamaica from West Africa before 1778, and has since then has become a major feature of various Caribbean cuisines
14. a long tuberous starchy root about two inches around and eight inches long; the root has a brown fibrous skin and snowy white interior flesh.