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Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

Bassey, Bassey E.
Miller, Ivor L.

Paperback

Series: Caribbean Studies

AnthropologyWorld Music

ISBN10: 1617033197
ISBN13: 9781617033193
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Mar 1 2012
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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