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Mama Africa

Pathways converging on Mama Africa

Ordered stops 5 Across 3 mediums

The traced route

5 stops · ordered to follow

Film

1 stop

Colombia · Film

Embrace of the Serpent

Ciro Guerra · 2015

Anchored in the pathway 'The River That Remembers What We Forgot', linked via the thread of 'Exile sung in mother tongue'.

Literature

2 stops

Madagascar · Literature

Beyond the Rice Fields

Anchored in the pathway 'The Long Shadow of Colonial Silence', linked via the thread of 'Voice as portable homeland'.

Chile · Literature

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende · 1982

Anchored in the pathway 'The Generational Loom of Political Ghosts', linked via the thread of 'exile as compositional method'.

Music

2 stops

Jamaica · Music

Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari · 1973

Anchored in the pathway 'Drumming the Ancestors Awake', linked via the thread of 'bassline as repatriation'.

Rwanda · Music

Rwanda Not So Innocent

Jean-Paul Samputu · 2005

Anchored in the pathway 'Singing the Unspeakable Wound', linked via the thread of 'Continent as wounded mother'.