Word: pan-african
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...drummer Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ’07, the past few weeks have been rough on the hands. Rehearsals for the Feb. 25 Cultural Rhythms show have left Ogunnaike, a member of the Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble, with three sizeable welts on his right palm. Yet he maintains that it’s a small price to pay for the chance to drum. “It’s so worth it,” he says. “The sound and the rhythms that you get out of it are so beautiful...
...W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis. The first of a planned two parts, this volume tracks the controversial black intellectual from his middle-class roots in Massachusetts to Paris for the 1918 Pan-African Congress. Lewis reveals the crusading editor and author of The Souls of Black Folk to be an aloof thinker struggling with contradictory ideas about racial inclusion and separatism...
...establish the truth about the history of Africa” instead of “To establish the truth about the history of Africa and experience of its people, using the vehicle of African arts and culture” (emphasis added). In fact, the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival, PANAFEST, is primarily an Arts and Culture festival, according to , and as such other festivals it promotes a united spirit among its participants—in this case, “Africans and people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans...
...establish the truth about the history of Africa” is Goal #1 of Panafest and enticement enough to compel your correspondent, a gadfly of colonial history and sensitive about sweeping, Pan-African pronouncements of historical truth, to hightail it to this one-time capital of Britain’s Gold Coast Colony (Cape Coast, Ghana) where the confab is gathering...
...happened for me on a Saturday morning in February 2003. That morning, a woman named Diana Aubourg was giving a talk to the W.E.B. DuBois Society program—an academically rigorous Saturday school program of African and African American studies for gifted and talented black youth—for which I tutor. Aubourg, director of program development in Africa for the Pan-African Children’s Fund and a scholar of development studies with a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave an in-depth and impassioned presentation on the extent...