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.... Linguistic fieldwork further led into concerns with religious, culinary, and musical folkways, as well as biographical investigation. Outlines of Warner-Lewis’s writings on the Caribbean and on Caribbean cultures inspired by Yoruba, Igbo, and Kongo matrices are presented. [email protected] ©...

..., . . . battles, [and] martyrs.” 5 Warner-Lewis points to the complex and rich history of those who came from Africa. This is her project in Guinea’s Other Suns but also in her Yoruba Songs of Trinidad ; Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory ; Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time...

... at their Belmont home a well-established “Rada” yard for practitioners of Allada or Vodun rites. 15 Another informant, Lucy Charles, remembered that her great-grandmother was born in Ondo (now part of Nigeria) and that her Yoruba name was Oshunbunmi (“Osun’s gift”). Her grandmother Asade (“one whose coming...

... on the backs of enslaved people brought largely from Africa, could be valid without relating it to the African continent. It was less obvious in the 1960s, when Maureen began her research. Trinidad Yoruba retentions were an early interest, hence Nigeria was the beginning in her search for African origins...

... that the assessment of Africa’s entanglement with the region is ongoing. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Mona University of the West Indies literary criticism Yoruba Kongo “You enter the yard from a wide unpaved roadway, pushing at a large zinc door that opens on to a square...

... to illuminate and engage Caribbean catastrophic history. Cuban-born Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons found the slave ship icon a rich source for making claims for the survival and transformation of Yoruba religious beliefs in Cuba and North America. Her installations referencing the sche- matic...

... resonates with both the ancient Greek myth of Hermes, the god of interpretation who medi- ates between the firmament and demotic reality (and often scrambles the interpretation in the process), and his West African counterpart, Esu Elegbara. In Yoruba philosophy, Esu Elegbara, like Hermes, mediates...

... certainly undergirds the criminalization of Yoruba-derived religiosity in prerevolutionary Cuba that Raíces confronts, Rolando reconstructs the ways the Cuban Republic itself, drawing from coloniality, rationalized the genocide. Recalling prerevolutionary Cuba Libre’s reluctance to see blackness...

..., Marchin’ the Pilgrims Home , 3. 17 Zane, Journeys to the Spiritual Lands , 4. 18 Lum, Praising His Name in the Dance , 6. 19 Shared Yoruba-based influences and the overlapping of both worship practices and practitioners have resulted in a kind of discursive false marriage between...

... off ers. “Don’t forget that you have the key, not them on the outside.” And Mary “Iya ilu” (1798–1904) is the maternal Yoruba voice from Roy Landing’s 220707 “real place,” Africa. Her plaintive message sent back from...

...—was vibrantly Yoruba and Akan” (6). With regard to Fire's Yoruba and Akan features, Smith notes, It is not supposed to matter here that the signifiers “Yoruba” and “Akan,” so compatible in Fire's face, would not make sense as synonyms—are in fact worlds apart—in West Africa, and for that matter in Brooklyn...

... Trinidadianness in a way that holds the potential to be an ironic rebuke of Gray's dismissal, but which I read as comical, for how could the child of a Barbadian father and Yoruba mother be authentically Trinidadian? By contrast, Gray is neither born of immigrants, like Pierre, nor degraded by slavery...

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... in mermaids, which were more than folklore to them. Some of the elders actually referred to various mermaids in the community by name. I remember Miss Pearl telling me that people believe the mermaids lived in the caves in the community, and Woodside has a lot of caves. But in the African Yoruba system...

... Chevannes points to the recurrence of the crossroads trope in the religious symbolism of dreams and rituals, such as those marking the separation of the dead from the living. Deconstructing the signifi cance of trickster-gods like Anansi and of liminality deities ssmallmall like the Yoruba...

... American Studies. Her research explores issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, human rights and international law, and the interface between culture, power, and globalization and its relationship to race and modernity. She is the author of Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency...

... (the Yoruba name for Eleguá) liked to occupy the crossroads, and so I began cracking eggs to leave beside copper coins at the intersection of Walnut Street and Woodside Avenue near my house. I looked on as crows flew in to peck at the yolks, to then take the offering back to Eleguá in the spirit world. All...

... religious legacy. In particular, it draws from two religious systems: Palo Monte Mayombe, of Kongo origin, and Santería, of Yoruba origin. 22 These two religious practices are not exclusive—Palo Monte and Figure 1. Clara Morera, Tarot de la pintura ( Tarot of Painting ), leaflet, 1979. Courtesy...

... and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), 217. 6 For more on this paradox, see Christina Sharpe, In the Wake (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017). 7 The names at the bottom of each page in this section are Yoruba names...

... cubano de cualquier ascendencia, incluso de cualquier clase social, presenta como signo distintivo el del mestizaje cultural. . . . Un cubano, aunque pareciese racialmente un yoruba o un catalán, responde al carácter de su nacionalidad. Por encima de cualquier contingencia es, se siente y se proclama con...