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“Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress”: Randall Robinson on His New Novel MakedaMakeda On the eve of the Civil Rights movement, while struggling to survive the emotional vacuum of his family, young Gray March escapes into the safe and magical world of his grandmother Makeda’s tiny parlor. There his life is transformed by his visits to the aging matriarch, a woman blind since birth but who has [...] The McIntosh County Shouters is a ten-member Gullah-Geechee group that began performing professionally in 1980. They have educated and entertained audiences around the United States with the “ring shout,” a compelling fusion of counterclockwise dance-like movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion consisting of hand claps and a stick beating the rhythm on a wooden floor. African [...] by Akinyele Umoja Haitian practitioners of Vodou, an integral part of the nation’s culture, have been set upon and lynched by evangelical protestants linked to the U.S. Right. “The promotion of a religious civil war among Haitians is part and partial of the colonial counter-insurgency ‘play book.’” “The lynchings were mostly conducted by machete-wielding thugs.” [...] Author:Sobonfu Somé CSQ Issue:33.1 (Spring 2009) A Celebration of Pacific Culture I grew up in southwestern Burkina Faso, where the houses are built with mud and nicely polished with cow dung and ash. The children have their own rooms; the women have their rooms; and the men have their room. It is not to promote [...] To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community [...] REVIEW: ‘Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti’ is an incredible visual document chronicling authentic Haitian Voundoun practices as they’ve never been viewed by the public-at-large before. Filmed between ’47 and ’51 by the legendary cult filmmaker and author Maya Deren who was an initiate into these religious practices, her involvement made it possible for [...] The completion of an interview with the King of Oyotunji village in South Carolina PLUS an interview with the grandson of Baba Medahochi, an outstanding cultural pioneer who is responsible for exposing so many of our people in the West to our traditional African culture. BABA MEDAHOCHI: TRIBUTE TO A CULTURAL PIONEER MUSICAL HEALERS PODCAST Marketing ‘killing Nigerian festival’ By Andrew Walker, BBC News, Osogbo, Nigeria An annual gathering to celebrate a traditional spirit-god in one of Nigeria’s few remaining virgin forests is one of the last places you would expect to hear complaints of over-commercialisation. But experts on Nigeria’s traditional religion say the 600-year-old Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove Festival is [...] |
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