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Dinki Mini and Gerreh are African-origin dances traditionally performed in Jamaica after deaths to cheer mourners. Dinki Mini comes from the Congolese word for lamentation and uses lively music and pelvic dancing to symbolize defiance of death through reproduction. Gerreh features suggestive lyrics and dancing on bamboo poles. Both were practiced during slavery and are now part of annual festivals, with Dinki Mini in St. Mary, St. Ann, St. Andrew and Portland parishes and Gerreh in Hanover, Westmoreland and

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