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Bound by blood: new film highlights Jamaica’s outlawed obeah belief system
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Stew Peas focuses on obeah, an enduring African magic practice in Jamaica banned by colonisers in the 1700sA new movie from award-winning Jamaican film-maker Sosiessia Nixon shines a spotlight on Jamaicas enduring west African-based magic and spiritual healing tradition known as obeah.Nixons tense, feature-length suspense, Stew Peas, tells of the story of Jamaican detective Tessa, who is obsessed with an old murder case.
Source: The Guardian
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