.... NOT AMERICA, NOT JAMAICA — BARBADOS Actually, the singing star hails from the West Indies. She was born in Saint Michael, south-west Barbados, on February 20, 1988. Her mother, Monica Braithwaite, is Afro-Guyanese, (Guyana is located off the northern coast of South America), while her father, Ronald Fenty, is of Barbadian and Irish heritage. Rihanna’s homeland has a complex racial heritage that goes back to the era of the transatlantic slave trade. The first African captives arrived on the island in 1627, and the Irish came in numbers from 1648, after English military leader Oliver Cromwell crushed a rebellion in Ireland and deported up to 50,000 Irish soldiers, political prisoners, priests, teachers and dissidents, selling them on to British plantation owners as slaves and indentured servants. Many of them coupled with Africans, which is why so many biracial Barbadians today have Irish surnames. RIHANNA COUNTRY - HISTORY The enslavement of the captives continued until 1834 when they were emancipated. By then the Irish captives and their descendents had assimilated into the Barbadian population, and the census of the 1881 did not identify any of its citizens as Irish. Somewhere within this island’s turbulent history lies the ancestry of Rihanna and her family. The exact details are not known — but with her green eyes and Afro-Guyanese-Irish background, her rich heritage continues to fascinate fans around the world. youtube/watch?v=yd8jh9QYfEs&list=PL7D3CE401B5BE7CCF&index=8 arogundade/where-is-rihanna-from-was-rihanna-born-in-barbados-or-jamaica.html
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