Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother-Tongue to Memory (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)

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A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention below slavery.

Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it’s been used at the island of Trinidad within the southern Caribbean. The have a look at breaks new ground in addressing the enjoy of Africans in one locale of the Africa Diaspora and examines the character in their social and linguistic heritage because it was once successively retained, modified, and discarded in a European-dominated island community.

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