Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.
Contents:
Clues from oral history -- Africans in nineteenth-century Trinidad -- Elders and ancestors : links of blood and culture -- The Congo-Angolan peoples -- Stickfight and kambule -- Hausa memories -- The Rada of Belmont -- The Yoruba : their songs, their souls, their society -- Form and metaphor in the Yoruba poetry of Trinidad -- Yoruba religion in Trinidad : transfer and reinterpretation -- African feasts in Trinidad -- The influence of Yoruba music on the minor-key Calypso -- African elements in the language of Trinidad -- Mindset, myth, masquerade and Pan.
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