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- Book Title
- Voice of the Leopard : African Secret Stories and Cuba
- ISBN
- 9781617033193
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 676g
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ekpe, or leopard, which was the highest indigenous authority. Ekpe lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to colonial Cuba, reorganized their Ekpe clubs covertly in Havana and Matanzas into a mutual-aid society called Abakua, which became foundational to Cuba's urban life and music. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ekpe initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakua initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership. Voice of the Leopard is an unprecedented tracing of an African title-society to its Caribbean incarnation, which has deeply influenced Cuba's creative energy and popular consciousness. This book is sponsored by a grant from the InterAmericas(r)/Society of Arts and Letters of the Americas, a program of the Reed Foundation.
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University Press of Mississippi
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9781617033193
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Publication Name
Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
676g
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Caribbean Studies Series
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United States
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