Deeta S. Johnson
Deeta was born in the 1940s in a beautiful country hamlet called Norwood, located in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica.
Norwood is lush and green, with few houses, one or two shops, a Sunday school, and hardly anything else—except small landholdings and inhabitants who either know each other or are related.
Deeta’s mother was a local self-taught midwife, and her father was a farmer and landowner. Deeta attended school in Ocho Rios, a tourist resort with Spanish-influenced naming traditions. The...
