For twenty years, the Garifuna Collective has been considered an authority in the preservation and development of the rich cultural heritage of the Garifuna, an Afro-diasporic community in Belize, Central America. As well as working within the community itself, the collective also directs its activities outwards to the wider world. They have played the world’s largest music festivals, performing in more than thirty countries, won prizes like the BBC World Music Award, and produced many successful albums. Garifuna Collective is currently on a world tour to mark its twentieth anniversary. The Garifuna are descendants of enslaved Africans who stranded on the shores of St. Vincent in the seventeenth century, probably shipwrecked. Together with the island’s Indigenous Arawak they founded free, just, and well-organized communities that were able to resist Europe’s colonial powers for more than a century, until the British finally drove them onto the mainland where they settled along the coasts of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Up to the present, the Garifuna have preserved their own language, music, and culture, now inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.