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Lecture presented by Prof. Robert Hill (in 2007) as part of the National Library's Distinguished Lecture Series. The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is relentless in its efforts to foster a nation knowledgeable about its history, heritage and information sources. To that end for the past four years the NLJ has hosted a series of Distinguished Lectures. The National Library of Jamaica is proud of its lectures thus far and the sorts of discussions they have sparked.

Lecture presented by Prof. Robert Hill (in 2007) as part of the National Library's Distinguished Lecture Series. The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is relentless in its efforts to foster a nation knowledgeable about its history, heritage and information sources. To that end for the past four years the NLJ has hosted a series of Distinguished Lectures. The National Library of Jamaica is proud of its lectures thus far and the sorts of discussions they have sparked.

Lecture presented by Prof. Robert Hill (in 2007) as part of the National Library's Distinguished Lecture Series. The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is relentless in its efforts to foster a nation knowledgeable about its history, heritage and information sources. To that end for the past four years the NLJ has hosted a series of Distinguished Lectures. The National Library of Jamaica is proud of its lectures thus far and the sorts of discussions they have sparked.

Lecture presented by Prof. Robert Hill (in 2007) as part of the National Library's Distinguished Lecture Series. The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is relentless in its efforts to foster a nation knowledgeable about its history, heritage and information sources. To that end for the past four years the NLJ has hosted a series of Distinguished Lectures. The National Library of Jamaica is proud of its lectures thus far and the sorts of discussions they have sparked.

Lecture presented by Prof. Robert Hill (in 2007) as part of the National Library's Distinguished Lecture Series. The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is relentless in its efforts to foster a nation knowledgeable about its history, heritage and information sources. To that end for the past four years the NLJ has hosted a series of Distinguished Lectures. The National Library of Jamaica is proud of its lectures thus far and the sorts of discussions they have sparked.

Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains.

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Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In this video, he walks us through the instrument’s history — from West Africa to enslaved people in the US to the early record industry — to explain how Black folk music has evolved.

For example: The early record industry confined Black musicians to “race records” and white musicians to “hillbilly records.” Hillbilly music would have been early country and string band music. Race records restricted Black musicians to blues and jazz genres. Which meant Black musicians playing bluegrass-style banjo weren’t recorded — even if they were responsible for teaching white musicians.

Using field recordings, their own banjo and fiddle skills, and a deconstructed version of one of their own songs, Jake explains how Black musicians have long been left out of the current canon of folklore recordings and American folk music history. And what he’s doing to keep the tradition alive, with fresh observations and a musical style that looks both forward and backward.

This video was filmed on location at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Listen to Jake Blount’s music and find his album The New Faith, here: https://jakeblount.com/

Jake’s website also lists resources for Black string band music. You can find free online resources, discover contemporary black artists, and listen to source recordings here: https://jakeblount.com/black-stringband-resources

Gribble, M., Lusk, J., York, A. “Altamont” Black Stringband Music from the Library of Congress
Blount, J. “Once There Was No Sun” The New Faith
Jones, B. “Once There Was No Sun”

Smithsonian Music, “Roots of African American Music”
https://music.si.edu/spotlight..../african-american-mu

Smithsonian Music, “Banjos”
​​https://music.si.edu/spotlight/banjos-smithsonian

PBS, “Blackface Minstrelsy”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ameri....canexperience/featur

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Extrait de la conférence donnée par Kaalozz, membre du Collectif A.U.S.A.R, lors du premier Cheikh Anta Diop Day dans le monde francophone.

The Dahomey Amazons were an all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which existed from the 1600s until 1904. They are one of the few documented female armies in modern history. Also known as the ‘Agojie’. They were although not a very humane group of people. Heavily involved in slave raids and the selling of peaceful captured Africans to the Atlantic Slave Raid.

The leader, King Ghezo refused to end the raids and sale of slaves when the British abolished slavery and slavery through the ports. They were notorious for ravaging peaceful villages, beheadings and thousands of custom sacrifices of captured people. The also hand many friendly dealings with Francisco Felix de Souza, (The Great Slave Trader) who was very close to King Ghezo.

The last known slave ship, Clotilda, that transported 115 slaves that was captured and sold by the Dahomey Kingdom to America.

Sources:
https://www.litnet.co.za/the-a....frican-library-barra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons
https://www.smithsonianmag.com..../history/real-warrio
https://www.nationalgeographic.....com/history/article
https://www.historyvshollywood.....com/reelfaces/woman
http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1403
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com..../smithsonian-institu

Our full interview with filmmaker and educator Haile Gerima from 2015. A 4K restoration of SANKOFA was just released on Netflix via ARRAY.

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Haile Gerima is an independent filmmaker and professor of film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Ethiopia, Gerima emigrated to the United States in 1967. Following in the footsteps of his father, a dramatist and playwright, Gerima studied acting in Chicago before entering the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where his exposure to Latin American films inspired him to mine his own cultural legacy. After completing his thesis film, Bush Mama (1975), Gerima received international acclaim with Harvest: 3000 Years (1976), an Ethiopian drama that won the Grand Prize at the Locarno film festival.

After the award-winning Ashes & Embers (1982) and the documentaries Wilmington 10—U.S.A 10,000 (1978) and After Winter: Sterling Brown (1985), Gerima filmed his epic, Sankofa (1993). This formally ambitious tale of a plantation slave revolt was ignored by U.S. distributors, but Gerima tapped into African American communities, and booked sold-out screenings in independent theaters around the country.

In 1996, Gerima founded the Sankofa Video and Bookstore in Washington, DC., a cultural and intellectual space that offers opportunities for self-expression, interaction, discussion and analysis through community events such as film screenings, book signings, scholar forums and artist showcases. Gerima continues to distribute and promote his own films, including his most recent festival success, Teza (2008), which won the Jury and Best Screenplay awards at the Venice Film Festival. He also lectures and conducts workshops in alternative screenwriting and directing both within the U.S. and internationally.
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