Digital Journal

As pandemic crisis bites, young Cubans find solace in sect with African origins

A group of initiates of the Cuban religion Abakua take part in the oath ceremony at the Efi Barondi Cama temple, known as a 'power' - Copyright AFP Yamil LAGE A group ...
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The light inside Abakuá society arts and Cuban cultural history David H. Brown

part 1. "The Light Inside": Abakua Society Arts and Modern Cuban Cultural History -- 1. Introduction: Meanings, Methods, and the Cultural Biography of Things Abakua -- 2. The Abakua Society and the ...
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The sacred language of the Abakuá Lydia Cabrera ; edited and translated by Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In ...
Moviefone

Bongó Itá

A rare close-up of the Abakuá —an Afro-Cuban religious brotherhood that has been hidden from outsiders until recently. A symbol of resistance for over 200 years, the Abakuá society has managed to ...
The New Yorker

Rennie Harris RHAW/Abakuá

SummerStage’s expanded programming delivers some hip-hop and Afro-Latin funk to the Bronx. On Friday, the Philadelphia master and hip-hop evangelist Rennie Harris offers RHAW, his junior crew, kids ...