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Bajan history. Interesting Bajan people. Hiking in Barbados and Overseas. International Travel…

Author: Brent Stoffle

Brent Stoffle PhD is a Social Scientist in the Social Science Research Group of the Directorate Office in National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southeast Fisheries Science Center.

Brent grew up in Barbados in the late 1960s, early 1970s while his father Richard Stoffle was undertaking his masters dissertation research. Brent, like his father undertook the research for his masters dissertation in Barbados 30 years later in the late 1990s, early 2000s!

  • Meeting Turn and Me: A Look at Our Life in Barbados

    Meeting Turn and Me: A Look at Our Life in Barbados

    Meeting turn is known by many names in the Caribbean such as: sou sou, susu, osusu, partner, or by other regional names. It refers to a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) widely practiced across West African. The term sou sou is linked to esusu, a system practiced across West Africa, where communal savings arrangements…