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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 72–74.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... “The Yoruba Language in Trinidad” was the title of her PhD dissertation at UWI Mona. 1 The body of work to which I pay tribute here has gone into other language groups in Nigeria, notably the Igbo, and into other culture areas of Africa and now constitutes an unparalleled exploration into African...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 colonial education Yoruba language African slave indentured labor Kumina Black Power Eric Williams Kamau Brathwaite Paul Lovejoy Caribbean-oriented press Maureen Warner-Lewis, 1993, Lopez Photography, Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of Maureen Warner-Lewis...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
... no cultural past by drawing the voices of African ancestors into the New World present. The shifting sociolinguistic landscape informs the 1996 Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory , in which Warner-Lewis focuses on the Yoruba-language material she had collected in the field. Whereas the essays...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
... passive Yoruba speakers but in which orisha chants, minor-key calypsos, and masquerade and stickfighting boasts provided an ongoing and dynamic milieu in which the Yoruba language could thrive. Replacing Anglo-Saxon with the study of Creole languages would not in and of itself guarantee...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 98–108.
Published: 01 July 2023
... “Trinidad Yoruba: Its Implications for Creolisation Processes,” to which I will return later in this piece, Warner-Lewis walks us through the implications of her findings for how we understand creolization. She contends that the presence of African languages, or “language residues,” well into the 1970s...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
... 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...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
... is curiously inattentive
to the very cultures she so actively raids to cushion and support her argument. For example,
for Yoruba, words help to bring about a world and have the power to transform and make
things happen to either positive or negative effect. Language within a Yoruba...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
...-Cuban orishas (gods), and feature dialogue in lucumí , the Yoruba language spoken in Cuba. Cabrera also allows race to be inferred from social context, as in the story “Los compadres” (“The Buddies”), in which the Afro-Cuban identity of the two protagonists, Evaristo and Capinche, is implied through...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... their forced embrace of Christianity, then this influence was both deepened and expanded as they settled into their new Southern Caribbean context. The early influence of Yoruba cosmology and spiritual practice would be combined with elements of Kabbalism, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Spiritism, Hinduism...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
...—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...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 201–208.
Published: 01 September 2002
... 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
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“real place,” Africa. Her plaintive message sent back from...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 129–139.
Published: 01 November 2018
... (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...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
... on the Logic of Language,” in She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989; repr., Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2015), 33. 7 The names at the bottom of each page in this section are Yoruba names invented by Philip; the archive has no recordings of names for the slaves aboard...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
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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...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
...: Duke University Press, 2013), 138–40. Morera's artwork appropriates and reshapes certain figures of the Afro-Cuban 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...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
... with no ancestry”? At another moment in the novel, a working-class black Trinidadian, Pierre, insists on his 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...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
...-Cuban religious practices. 26 Morejón dedicated one of the poems in the collection to Martińez Furé—a member of the private study groups who studied Yoruba cultures and African-descended religions in Cuba. A number of the poems in Morejón’s collection engaged with themes about Regla de Ocha...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 186–192.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of a “localised” theory. The structuralisms
that provide a basis to acknowledge commonalities between today’s dancehall queens and
Yoruba river goddesses also point to systematic exploitation of women and rampant con-
servatism in folktales ancient and modern. Similarly, the progressive degeneration of terms...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 25–48.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Yoruba revivalists in Oyotunji Village reenvisioned the rituals and social organization of
Cuban Santeria to institutionalize instead a “purer,” more “authentically” Nigerian Yoruba, practice. Mapping
Yoruba Transnationalism (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).
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