Pilgrimage to the heart of Africa

14 Aug, 2011 | Responsible Tourism

Special Reconciliation of African people from East and West of the Atlantic Ocean

«The essential for a people is not much being able to glorify itself by a past more or less majestic, but it is more about discovering and taking consciousness of this past’s continuity,  whatever this past was.” (Cheikh Anta Diop).

Pilgrimage to the heart of Africa

Pilgrimage to the heart of Africa

Dirty cloths are to be washed within the family, they say. That’s why Malaki ma Kongo, association for the promotion of African cultural roots in service of Responsible Development, invites all Africans – but not only! – from east and west of the Atlantic Ocean to go back to African ancestors’ steps.
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Press conference

14 Aug, 2011 | Haiti news
by Mambo Marie-Jeanne
mambo Marie Jeanne

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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C.E.C.I.L.E. Malaki ma Kongo Haiti

14 Aug, 2011 | Haiti news

REPORT on the FESTIVITIES OF THE YEAR 2006 TO 2008 made by C.E.C.I.L.E.

Elien Isac et CECILE - Haiti

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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Kongo in Cuba

14 Aug, 2011 | Cuba news

Arch. de Sc. soc. des Rel., 2002, 117 (January-March) 59-80

by Erwan DIANTEILL

KONGO IN CUBA, CONVERSION OF AFRICAN RELIGION

The 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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Llanto Brujo

14 Aug, 2011 | Cuba news

Cuba’s musundis memory recuperation.

aldo durades

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.

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