The Dancing spirits of Trinidad: Moko Jumbies / photographs by Stefan Falke ; design by Stafford Cliff ; preface by Geoffrey Holder ; introduction by Earl Lovelace ; interviews by Laura Anderson Barbata ; production by Ian Hammond ; managing editor Jane K. Creech.
Seventeen years ago, Glen "Dragon" de Souza founded the Keylemanjahro School of Arts and Culture on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. The school's mission was to revive the almost-forgotten West African tradition of the Moko Jumbie, or "dancing spirit" and adopt stilt-walking into the annual Carnival celebration.
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