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Nimbaya! Drummers from Guinea
A great article on an all-female drumming group from Guinea that performed in NY. They are breaking down barriers by drumming, something traditionally reserved for men, and use their stage time to speak out against female genital mutilation which is performed astonishingly on 98% of women in Guinea.
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“Chains are for the slave who has just become a slave, who has . . . just been brought across the Atlantic,” Boubacar said. “But the multigeneration slave, the slave descending from many generations, he is a slave even in his own head. And he is totally submissive. He is ready to sacrifice himself, even, for his master. And, unfortunately, it’s this type of slavery that we have today” — the slavery “American plantation owners dreamed of.” For a slave to be free, she first must break the shackles in her mind.
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