All study notes of African studies.objectives of the African Studies Course.
Bembé . Party for the fun of the orishas , the gods belonging to the Yoruba Pantheon . In this festival, various types of percussion instruments are sung, danced and played . Summary [ hide ] 1 The bembé 2 Features 3 Possession through trance …
The batuque (also called Africanism , the nation of saint and the nation of Orixá ) is one of the Afro-Brazilian religions that spread throughout much of Latin America . [1] Summary [ hide ] 1 Origin 2 Description 3 Nations 4 The cult …
Irene Papas. Was an actress of cinema and theater and singing Greek, has played more than seventy roles over more than half a century career. Summary [ hide ] 1 Biographical synthesis 1 Trajectory 2 Awards 3 Sources Biographical synthesis He was born on 9 March as as 1926 in Chilomodion , Greece . …
Katherine Dunham . She was a pioneer of the African American ballet. Dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. He studied anthropology at the University of Chicago . He later founded a school of black dance that represented Negro …
Lunda Sul is one of the eighteen provinces in which Angola is administratively divided , located in the northeast of the country and its capital is Saurimo . It has an area of 77,636 km² and …
Luchazi . African ethnic group of the Bantu stock that lives in the southeast of Angola , where its members number around 280,000 individuals; in northwestern Zambia , where there are approximately 70,000 individuals; and in the northeast …
Moxico is an Angolan town located in the homonymous province. The municipality has 38,999 km² and a population that amounts to 177,017 inhabitants (2006). It is bounded to the north by the municipalities …