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Published: 01 June 2021
...Adebayo Adegbembo, a Nigerian software developer, creates digital tools to promote African culture. Adegbembo's work raises issues about the importance of digital technologies for creating connections across the African diaspora. His encounter with other Afrodescendants--for example, in Brazil--has...
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Published: 23 February 2016
...This chapter examines why the German-Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, became an important center of Atlantic African culture. While a small place, the existence in Bethlehem of rare, first-hand memoirs, diaries, and other documents written by black Christians permits us to explore...
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Published: 01 January 2008
... and the Maroons continued to provide Jamaica's masses with an alternative vision even after the abolition of slavery and despite the efforts of missionaries to stamp out any remaining vestige of African culture. This chapter provides the text and excerpts of some Maroon oral history narratives and sacred songs...