How Cuban Villagers Learned They Descended From Sierra Leone Slaves

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Trailer: Afro-Cubans and Sierra Leoneans Bridge The Gap in Doc 'They Are We' | Shadow and Act

How Cuban Villagers Learned They Descended From Sierra Leone Slaves - Emma Christopher - The Atlantic

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[Cuban Pete]

shyt is touching b...

As a mixed Cuban who used to be part of a Afro-Centric religion tho I always found it fascinating how we maintained the language thru song and worship ... and funny when I would see cac-cubans speaking it fluently

 

[Dada]

Reminds me of another story but US Americans. The songs were passed on and that's how they found the link. I think it was to Sierra Leone in that case, too. Very interesting.

*Found a reference on Wiki: "In the Americas, especially the United States, researchers have discovered that elements of African culture had long persistence. In some areas where there were large groups of enslaved Africans, they kept much of their heritage. In the 1930s African-American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner found a Gullah family in coastal Georgia that had preserved an ancient song in the Mende language ("A waka"), passing it down for 200 years. In the 1990s three modern researchers -- Joseph Opala, Cynthia Schmidt, and Tazieff Koroma — located a Mende village in Sierra Leone where the same song is still sung today. The story of this ancient Mende song, and its survival in both Africa and the US, is chronicled in the documentary film The Language You Cry In." I think I had the movie downloaded because the granddaughter ends up going back. It was really touching, you can see how the impact on her but also the people she met with when she went there.

 

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[MikelArteta]

:swag:

 

[Malta]

That's just beautiful

 

[ThatTruth777]

Good article too, I liked this part

There is a pervasive idea that Africans are generally unmoved by the fate of the descendants of slaves throughout the Americas. That belief is born largely of the tragedy that the vast majority of Africa's diaspora have little left of the specific languages, cultures, or beliefs that would tie them to a particular place of origin.

 

[Azul]

Sierra Leone

 

[Blackking]

in a way.... this is a fcked up story.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

ARE THE MUSLIMS (PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE SUBMISSION TO GOD)?