Abstract of “In Search of Equiano’s Sister: Girlhood and Slavery in the Early Modern British Atlantic, 1600-1807,” by Sherri V. Cummings, Ph.D., Brown University, May …
In recent decades, the djembe has become a global commodity. Originating as a local ceremonial drum in rural Mande communities, the djembe has since proliferated …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the recent emergence of the phenomenon of women’s drumming in postcolonial West Africa through the lens of Ewe …