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Rethinking African Indigenous Ritual Festivals, Interrogating the Concept of African Ritual Drama

by Morufu Bukola Omigbule Abstract The postcolonial influence on the study of indigenous African culture is overwhelming. It is one out of many Western scholarly influences that colonial rule brought about in Africa. A good example is the description and evaluation of African indigenous ritual practices in terms of Western conceptions of dramatic experience at […]

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“We Wear the Mask”: Kongo Folk Art and Ritual in South Carolina

by Jason Young Abstract This article argues for a vision of the African diaspora as an arena of “insurgent nostalgia,” a restive remembrance and embodiment of the past. Blacks throughout the diaspora reconstituted and reconfigured elements of African culture through a series of sacralized and ancestral elements created, imagined, and remembered in ritual practice. But […]

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