🐐 SOUND THE ABENG DEM: Why Chief Fabian Stennett (Gangunjah Nevadye) Is the G.O.A.T. of Black Cultural Revival
By Skywide Peace Editorial | September 2025
When history looks back at the architects of a global Black cultural renaissance, one name will rise from the misty hills of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country and echo across time like a war horn of memory: Chief Fabian Stennett, known across the diaspora as Gangunjah Nevadye — poet, prophet, preservationist, and the undeniable G.O.A.T. of ancestral awakening.
In an era saturated with shallow influence, Stennett is building empires of intellectual sovereignty, cultural rebirth, and grassroots revolution. And the world is listening.
🎓 From One Man to a Movement: Tangle River Study Group
Before the books. Before the broadcasts. Before the dub poetry and protest anthems — there was a quiet fire in the hills.
Chief Stennett founded the Tangle River Study Group, a grassroots educational movement that has impacted over 2,000 students across 44 villages in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country. This was not a school in the traditional sense — it was a reclamation zone for minds: a place where Maroon history, Black philosophy, African cosmology, and rural empowerment were restored to the community like lost heirlooms.
“No one was teaching us who we are. So we did it ourselves,” Stennett recalls. “We studied in yards, under trees, with chalk, books, bush tea — and truth.”
📺 Building Black-Owned Media: Anorock TV + iRadio + Skywide Peace
Not content with rewriting history from the margins, Stennett launched the platforms that would carry the message to the masses:
- 🎥 Anorock TV & iRadio – Rural Jamaica’s revolutionary voice, delivering unapologetic cultural education and local journalism.
- 🕊 Skywide Peace Media – A visionary multimedia house championing Afrocentric literature, independent reggae, grassroots education, and spiritual empowerment.
Where others saw limitations, Stennett saw airwaves waiting to be decolonized.
🐕 The Jamaica Mongrel Dog Association: Dignity in Every Form
Who else but Gangunjah Nevadye would found an organization to protect and revalue the most overlooked symbol of Jamaican life — the mongrel dog?
Through the Jamaica Mongrel Dog Association, Stennett reframed the mongrel from street stray to cultural metaphor: loyal, resilient, native, underestimated — just like the Maroon people.
“It’s not about dogs. It’s about how we treat what we don’t understand,” he says.
🖋 Literary Legend: A Cultural Arsenal in Four Books (and Counting)
If the drum was the first internet, Stennett’s pen is the Maroon search engine of now.
With the publication of:
- Maroon Poetic History
- Maroon Book of Eulogies: Part 1
- Modern Maroons of Jamaica
- Maroons: Paving the Way
…he’s created a canon of resistance that doesn’t ask permission — it demands remembrance.
These works are studied by scholars, performed by poets, and memorized by youth who finally see themselves in the pages of literature not written to exploit, but to exalt.
🔥 Sound the Abeng Dem: From Slogan to Symbol
And then there’s the slang heard ‘round the world:
“Sound the Abeng Dem!”
Three words. Infinite power.
Coined by Stennett and echoed in marches, festivals, classrooms, and on stages worldwide — this call to action is the heartbeat of a people waking up.
It’s the slogan of a movement.
It’s the ringtone of rebellion.
It’s the whisper of ancestors in modern tongues. With the previous release of his Album, The Seer Still Choppin and the Ep 3 Sides of a coin follow the successful release of his promo demo cd The Sèer: Stennett thas done it again with a new nation cry.
🎵 “Road Fulla Hole” — Soundtrack of a Nation’s Cry
His soon-to-be-released anthem “Road Fulla Hole” is already being called the most important reggae protest song since Peter Tosh’s “Equal Rights.” listen here. https://youtu.be/cbR6Du4PuVo?si=RDvYk-jt6GyA2WNf
Raw, poetic, blistering — the single merges dub poetry with musical invective, aiming directly at Jamaica’s socio-political neglect.
“I wanted a song that carried the pain and promise of the people,” Stennett says. “We dodge potholes, but we can't dodge the truth.”
🐐 Why He’s the G.O.A.T.
Greatness is not measured in awards.
It’s measured in impact, integrity, and the ability to make a people feel seen.
And by that metric, Chief Fabian Stennett is untouchable.
- He educates without ego.
- He builds without begging.
- He remembers without regret.
- He speaks with spiritual license.
Where others mimic, he originates. Where others brand, he embodies.
👑 Final Word: The Return of the True Griot
There’s something extremely authentic about Fabian Stennett.
He’s not just a poet. Not just a chief. Not just a cultural worker or radio voice. He’s a vessel — channeling the past and sculpting the future.
He stands in the sacred tension between ancestral memory and digital modernity — and he does not flinch.
The G.O.A.T. of our time is not chasing fame.
He’s restoring foundation.
So yes…
📣 Sound the abeng dem.
The real ones are rising.
🛒 Explore the Works of Chief Fabian Stennett (Gangunjah Nevadye):
📚 Maroon Poetic History → https://a.co/d/2NwndQw
📚 Maroon Book of Eulogies: Part 1 → https://a.co/d/aHt0Ifu
📚 Modern Maroons of Jamaica → https://a.co/d/dd525VU
📚 Maroons: Paving the Way → https://a.co/d/j0PJFd0
🎶 Coming Soon: “Road Fulla Hole” (2025) listen here. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17YoXpHcAV/
📧 Contact: gungehyard@yahoo.com
📱 Social: @GangunjahNevadye
🕊 Presented by:
Skywide Peace Media Productions
Empowering Artists. Restoring Memory. Resisting Erasure.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17YoXpHcAV/
Hashtags to Move the Masses:
#GangunjahNevadye #SoundTheAbengDem #ModernMaroonMovement
#SkywidePeace #TheGOAT #CaribbeanRenaissance #AncestralMemory
#RoadFullaHole #BlackLegacyMatters #GrassrootsToGreatness. https://youtu.be/cbR6Du4PuVo?si=RDvYk-jt6GyA2WNf
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