Adam
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I want to share this as a warning about our African culture. Here is a mzungu Israeli making a career/living off of African drumming and culture. He is profiting from traditional African music (African drums, xalam). I think too many of our people invite mzungus into our sacred culture and allow them to profit and steal from us. As a… Read more
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His description on his website nauseates me: “Ben’s drumming style is considered as the ‘next generation’ of Senegalese drumming. His creation has been acknowledged and approved by master drummers Doudou Ndiaye Rose and Ali Ndiaye Rose.
After releasing several percussion solo albums, Ben released his debut international album “Xalam”…
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This is very common. Europeans go to Africa, “learn” the culture from the local people, and create businesses for themselves in the West from that culture. This is cultural theft.
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Many Afrikans of the diaspora and continent adore wazungu. They allow this kind of thing to happen even when they are warned about them. - View more comments
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Currently reading…
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Healing Wisdom of Africa is a great book
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“The Diasporic African, in his or her being, represents the embodiment of the confrontation of two divergent world-views: a spiritual ethos inheriting a sacred, cosmic world-view forced to adjust to a materialistic society in inhuman circumstance. We must raise again the question of what happens when the spiritual ethos of a people of… Read more
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Some Diasporans feel it is not economically feasible to see themselves as Afrikans.- View 1 reply
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Unfortunately what gets lost in the discourse are all the ways in which diasporic Africans (especially in the U.S.) express our ancestry in everyday life. How we congregate as families, our influence on the religions that were forced on us, even how we talk. Despite the best effort of wazungu, that connection was never fully erased.- View 2 replies
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They become manufactured negros, living in an unnatural state, some of us already reclaimed our lost identities, most can’t. They bought into the unnaturalness and facade of the west and now are too far gone to reconnect to our ancestors. They fight you down if you try to put them back on the path to wholesomeness. That’s the… - View more comments
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