Posts Tagged Senegal
Abolition, Afro Kitsch, and Bamako
December 31, 2009 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones, March/April 2007 The annual New Year’s card arrived from Tomie Arai—a most happy Pig. This is the Pig’s year and already there’s a lot of rooting out of bad influences, bad people, bad ideas even as strange talk pollutes the airwaves. Dead blondes in the Bahamas, missing billions in Iraq, Dick [...]
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Tags: Atlantic Slave Trade, Darfur, ear of the Pig, Flash of the Spirit, Last King of Scotland, Mali, Niger, Robert Farris Thompson, Senegal, Senegalese, The New York Times, Tomie Arai, ynda Hull Tribute
Sabar Dance in Fort Greene
December 29, 2009 by Administrator
by Imani Kaba, June/July 2008: Vol. 2, No. 6 Dance is the physical manifestation of music” says Imani Kaba who teaches West African dance at Charles Moore Dance Theatre in downtown Brooklyn. As we know from our African ancestors music and dance has always been extremely important in African culture. Most all important functions, ceremonies, [...]
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Tags: African-American Arts and Cultural Society (AAACS), Afro- Hatian, Afro-Cuban, Aisha Rivers (formerly Aisha Diaby, Alpha Kaba, Babacar M’beye, Bara MBaye, brooklyn dance, Charles Moore Dance Theatre, Congolese, Djemb, Ebrima Jeng (Gambian Dance Company), Fabayo Manzira, Gambia, Kaolack, Latifa Diop, Marie Basse- Wiles., Marietou Cisse (Les Merveilles D’Afrique), Mohammad Diaby, Papa Hanne, Rich Faye, sabar, Safia, Senegal, Soukous, Thie Bou Djeune, Wayne State University, Yamoussa Soumah