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ISBN: 1496829492

ISBN13: 9781496829498

Sacred Language of the Abakuá

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In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los igos, an Abaku phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abaku societies for protection and mutual aid. Abaku rites reenact mythic legends of the institution's history in Africa,...

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