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Showing posts with label African traditions in Trinidad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African traditions in Trinidad. Show all posts
Friday, 6 January 2012

STOP! You imperfect speaker!

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As we all know, Carnival is a barometer, the mirror of the society. The tempo, the feel of the mass, reflects the society. Art imitating...
Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Look the devil dey!

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Somebody, I forget now who, once said to me that Jab Molassi (the Molasses Devil) came out of cannes brulées and was played in depiction o...
Monday, 26 September 2011

African Kingdoms

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The vastness of the African continent contains many mysteries, not the least are those that surround the origins of the human race. Some...
Thursday, 25 August 2011

Longtime Days

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Notes taken from the reminiscences of a truly grand old man, Lionel Inniss, born in the late 1840s. Lionel Inniss could remember whe...
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