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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1496829492
ISBN13:9781496829498
Release Date:December 2020
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:462 Pages
Weight:2.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"
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