Why do African Caribbean citizens not speak with an African accent?

Question

I am refferring to those who live in the Carribbean e.g people living in Jamaica, Barbados etc

Americans are a mix of many different countries around the world. Australians and New Zealanders have a different accent because the sun forced them to squint leading to a change in accent over generations. Africa and Jamaica aresimilar temperatures etc so that is why I am asking this question, still not doubt some do-gooders will get offended!

Answer 1

for the same reasons that Americans,Australians Canadians or people from New Zealand don't have English accents

Answer 2

I never heard that climate influenced accent.
Africa is a continent and English accents vary considerably. The Caribbean has Spanish and French influences and also Indian English influences. Slavery was abolished a long time ago, so that people from the Caribbean have been remote from Africa for about a century and a half. The people have developed their own way of speaking English.

Answer 3

Carribean accents (for there are many, if you are from there you can easilly tell) developed by the mixing of many people from many parts of Africa and elsewhere. People from different tribes and parts of Africa, taken as slaves to the Carribean would create a new accent, especially as the slave owners would speak English or French or even Dutch and their accents would also be added to the mix.

My favorite influence has to be the Irish accent, especially the strong Cork accent which was transported to the carribean during the 17th century when Oliver Cromwell deported thousands of Cork people to the carribean for rebellion.

Answer 4

When you learn to speak a foreign language from a native speaker of that foreign language, you learn to speak with the teacher's accent. We have many, many accents in the U.S. If I taught a person English, they would learn a generic Midwest American accent. The people of the Caribbean learned to speak English from teachers who came from Britain. Therefore, they have a variation on a British accent. I think speakers from Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa have accents closer to British than American, for example. Even in America, you'll find remnants of the British accents of the 1700's in isolated areas of the Appalachians and some of our off-coast Atlantic Islands.

Answer 5

I'm Jamaican
The reason why we dont have african accents is simple, slavery was abolished in the caribbean 1834..........seriously. From then, we have had a plethora of other nations that have immigarnts swarming in.........India, England, Spain, France, Holland etc,
Even then each Caribbean Island has their own unique accent: for example Trinidadian creole is a mixture of English, Afrikans, and Indian, to illustrate the dominant influences that particular country has. Haiti is predominately french.

i hope i cleared it up a bit

Answer 6

the speak Creole because of the french my father is from Belize, and he speaks with a dialect similar to Jamaican.

Answer 7

australlians had to squint and that made them develop a different accent?????