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Guinea’s Other Suns

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Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic number of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans throughout the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. The essays then examine one of the most African cultural practices and artefacts as recalled by the biological descendants of these migrants throughout interviews with the creator in the 1960s and 70s. The wars caused by ethnic and non secular contestations, economic advantage, and imperial expansionism are a significant theme in the literary repertoire, which then again embraces love, the yearning for home, pride in ethnic and circle of relatives identity, the pain of exile, the separation of death.The creator further explores the poetic techniques, musical genres and instrumentation, language patterns, athletic and masquerade traditions, economic arrangements, religious beliefs and rituals of the Yoruba, Kongo, Angolan, Hausa, and Rada (Dahomeyan) communities which this peasantry and urban labour force introduced or reinforced on the island. Even as a few of these artefacts have withered away, or are now moribund, others continue to inform the still-evolving twenty-first century cultural life of the island.

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