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DOCUMENTARY ON AFROCARIBBEAN MUSIC ON THE ISLAND OF OLD PROVIDENCE - WE DA DIS / CHAPTER 2: CARIBBEA

AfroN8V
16 Views · 3 months ago

The islands of San Andres, Providence/Providencia, and Santa Catalina, were originally colonized by the british and therefore are more culturally similar to the other Black populated english-speaking Caribbean islands, although they are a departamento (akin to state in the u.s.) in the South "american" nation state of colombia today. This documentary shows how music brought by men who worked on the sea, connected them to other Black people and Black people music of the wider Caribbean.

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Wi Da Dis is a series of short documentaries that highlight the cultural aspect of the community of Old Providence and Santa Catalina Island, with a native point of view around our music, dance and gastronomy, pleased in four audiovisual archive to transmit this knowledge for generations to come. CARIBBEAN SOUND: The second chapter addresses the different musical genres that came to the island brought by sailors that travel in the Caribbean and used the sea to bring different rhythms and sounds to Providence and Santa Catalina.CREDITS: Direction and original idea - ROBERT BRITTONGeneral production - JENNIFER ARCHBOLD (Ad honorem) Field production - KAREN LIVINGSTONDirector´s assistant - NICOLE SCHNOORCamera and editing - JOEL PEÑALOZACamera and editing - GALVIS NEWBALLOriginal music - JOHNY BRANDTSound assistant - NITCHMAN ROBINSONCover art - ARELIS HOWARDCover illustration - LUIS HOWARDVoice and narration - CHARLIE ARCHBOLDInvestigation assistant - MIGUEL PENILLAGeneral consulting - RICARDO VEGAPostproduction - NICOLA MORETTI More info: www.oldprovidencerecords.com

Why do you need a religion? - Marimba Ani

AfroN8V
16 Views · 2 months ago

Maybe you grew up practising a religion. Did you ever ask yourself why you need a religion, and what should be the effect of your religion on you and your community at large?
In this video, Mama Marimba Ani wisely answers this question. May we all ask ourselves the right questions as we strive to decolonize our minds.

The Honeytrap That Broke The CIA | True Life Spy Stories

Njideka Karmo
16 Views · 2 months ago

Ghana is hardly the place one expects a true Cold War espionage drama to play out. It had no Berlin Wall. No missile sites. In truth, it was just a nation of gold mines and cocoa plantations trying to find its way after independence in 1957.But it was in its capital city, Accra, that Ghana became a Cold War battleground in the proxy war between the united states and soviet union as they competed for the soul of an entire continent. This silent war raged for years, with neither side giving an inch. But then, disaster.It was a textbook honey trap operation that obliterated america's intelligence network across West Africa. Ghanaian intelligence services engineered a sophisticated romance targeting the most vulnerable point in any spy operation: the human heart.All it took was one charming operative targeting a lonely american woman on assignment for the CIA. Eighteen months of seduction and manipulation ended in the complete destruction of the CIA's presence in Ghana. The consequences for the CIA extended far beyond the borders of the West African country and onto the global stage of geopolitics.This is the story of Sharon Scranage; a blow for american intelligence in the infamous Year of the Spy that was 1985.