Language encodes the values and norms of any given culture. Louis Bennett, a Jamaican poet, pioneers the writing of Jamaicans in their own language. Jamaican patois is an english based creole language with West African influences. This patois serviced slaves as a secret form of communication without slave masters knowing the meaning. In Bennett’s poem “Cus Cus” two women are bickering back and forth in Jamaican patois “Gwan gal yuh fava teggereg Ah wey yuh gwine goh do?Yuh an yuh boogooyagga fren Dem tink me fraid o' yuh?”. The translation of the lines are,“Get away from here! you look like a vagabond!What do you think you're going to do?You and your ragamuffin friends assume I'm afraid of you?”. If the audience would have read the text
