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Guinea's other suns : the African dynamic in Trinidad culture / Maureen Warner-Lewis.

By: Warner-Lewis, Maureen [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kingston, Jamaica : The University of the West Indies Press, 2015Edition: Second editionDescription: xxiv, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789766405052 (pbk.) :Uniform titles: Essays. Selections Subject(s): Civilization -- African influences | Trinidad and Tobago -- Civilization -- African influences | Trinidad and TobagoDDC classification: 972.983 Also issued online.
Contents:
Clues from oral history -- Africans in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- Elders and ancestors : links of blood and culture -- The Congo-Angolan peoples -- Stickfight and kambule -- Hausa memories -- The Rada of Belmont -- The Yoruba : their songs, their souls, their society -- Form and metaphor in the Yoruba poetry of Trinidad -- Yoruba religion in Trinidad : transfer and reinterpretation -- African feasts in Trinidad -- The influence of Yoruba music on the minor-key Calypso -- African elements in the language of Trinidad -- Mindset, myth, masquerade and Pan.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.

Clues from oral history -- Africans in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- Elders and ancestors : links of blood and culture -- The Congo-Angolan peoples -- Stickfight and kambule -- Hausa memories -- The Rada of Belmont -- The Yoruba : their songs, their souls, their society -- Form and metaphor in the Yoruba poetry of Trinidad -- Yoruba religion in Trinidad : transfer and reinterpretation -- African feasts in Trinidad -- The influence of Yoruba music on the minor-key Calypso -- African elements in the language of Trinidad -- Mindset, myth, masquerade and Pan.

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