mambo Marie Jeanne
(…official greetings)
We greet all voodooist people from the 4 corner of Haiti: houngan makout, houngan assongwe, société champwel etc. Ayibobo (Hello) to all these indefatigable workers.
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REPORT on the FESTIVITIES OF THE YEAR 2006 TO 2008 made by C.E.C.I.L.E.
Elien Isac et CECILE - Haiti
March 2006: To commemorate the death of Queen KIMPA MVITA, the young woman who was burned for the unity and freedom of the black continent, CECILE Malaki Ma Kongo (Haiti) organizes a feast by bringing together foreign comers of Mexico and the Dominican Republic (DR). During the slave period, the slaves running during their journey from north to south, to relieve themselves they danced and clapped their Castrol and made music with their mouths. In the memory of our ancestors, CECILE Malaki ma Kongo (Haiti) invite the former head houngans Rara groups to this feast.
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Arch. de Sc. soc. des Rel., 2002, 117 (January-March) 59-80
by Erwan DIANTEILLThe emphasis on the “invention” of “Africanity” in Afro-American religions, conceived as an instrument of competition among employers for religious legitimacy, now tends to forget the classic debate on the historical relationship between Africa and America. Yet the research started by Raimundo Nina Rodriguez, Fernando Ortiz, Melville Herskovits, and Bastide, in which the elements of African origin are not intended as ideological artifacts, but as positive facts, are yet not exhausted. The Bantu religions case is particularly interesting from this point of view because, as recently noted by Stefania Capone (2000), the case was overlooked by the first African-Americanists. The publication of a book by Luc de Heusch (2000) that includes a chapter on “Kongo in Haiti” encourages us to turn our attention to “Kongo in Cuba.”
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aldo durades
(In Spanish)
El texto que sigue, lo escribí a manera de presentación del libro Llanto brujo, publicado en México dos meses después de haberlo escrito en Santiago de Cuba bajo la urgencia dictada por el Tatandi de los Musundi, Aldo Durades Román. Hace apenas una semana, mi participación en el II Festival Cultural con los pueblos de Africa, organizado por el ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela, una feliz coincidencia me ha puesto en contacto en Caracas con angolanos radicados en Cabinda, Angola, donde tuve el privilegio de estar hace exactamente ya veinte años, experiencia compartida con los hermanos joel James y Rogelio Meneses, hace poco fallecidos, con quienes realizaba estudios acerca de las religiones de base africana en Santiago de Cuba y más particularmente con la de ascendencia bantú.
Honor to the Kongo people from the west of the Atlantic Ocean who search their origins.
NTUMUA MASSEE is one of them.
He’s very curious, he searches for the fossils of truth. He unmasks those ones who falsify our ancestral memory. He gives tribute to CHEIKH ANTA DIOP, he honors our ancestors, he rehabilitates the wisdom of Kongo, he searches into Kongo spirituality, by the BUNDU DIA KONGO.
