Waters Womb’d & Ebb’d: Sunset on the Horizon (Where it all Started) Part One

Asinwah has met the man of her dreams. The couple fall in love and marry and have a baby daughter. Buccra John is an ambitious man who seeks opportunities. He is flawed to the core, does he succeed? His mother, Dulcimina is understanding. Mama Margaret and Nacummah teach patience. The protagonist of this tale seeks reassurance from her husband, parents and village when she discovers the ’New World’ is but, an illusion. She finds colonial men and their ideas a contradiction and not what she is used to. To Asinwah the ’New World’ is a big contradiction. Can she adjust to the challenges she faces? This text examines the social history of the people ’who came’ to the island. The people who were essential for the forming of what, colonialist’s referred to as the ’New World’. Does Asinwah adjust to the changes? Does she become a functioning member of the Caribbean’s ’New Tribe’? The text explores decisions made in the 1700s and how they still impact Jamaica and its people today, home and abroad. Cubah, on the other hand, meets a Freedom Fighter who takes her on a journey that introduces her, to her Sankofa. She is a woman born in London and brought up in Jamaica. Cubah returns to attend a rite of passage in Kingston. The characters in this story take a journey - one that represents, TIME PAST, TIME PRESENT AND TIME FUTURE.