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Mos Def

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Language and colonial power : the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 / Johannes Fabian

In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba (Katanga) Swahili. The author’s principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers’ culture of Shaba (Katanga), through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use.

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A note on names and orthography page viii

Introduction page 1

1 Prelude: expeditions and campaigns page 13

2 Questions and queries page 42

3 Settling in: colonization and language page 70

4 Labor and language in Katangapage 92

5 Talking tough and bad: pidginization in Katanga page 112

6 The end: illusions of colonial power page 135

Notes and  Bibliography

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The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706 by John Thornton

This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, and criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries in her country for not supporting black saints. The movement was largely a peace movement, with a following among the common people, attempting to stop the devastating cycle of civil wars between contenders for the Kongolese throne. Thornton supplies background information on the Kingdom, the development of Catholicism in Kongo since 1491, the nature and role of local warfare in the Atlantic slave trade, and contemporary everyday life, as well as sketching the lives of some local personalities.

Files are from my google drive, if the links don’t work I apologise 

Introduction

1 - A Land in Turmoil 

2 - The Rival Kings 

3 - Priests and Witches in Catholic Kongo 

4 - The Crisis in Faith and Force

5 - Saint Anthony Arrives

6 - The Saint and the Kings 

7 - Saint Anthony in Sin and Glory 

8 - Facing the Fire 

9 - The War for Peace 

Appendix: A Recovery of the “Salve Antoniana”

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Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign by Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz

Kongo Graphic Writingis a study of structured visual expression among the Bakongo people in Central Africa and their descendants in Cuba. The book is built around the central argument that multiple, varied communication tools, including written symbols, religious objects, oral traditions, and body language, have consistently been integrated by the Bakongo into structured systems of graphic writing. These systems are used to organize daily life, enable interactions between humans and the natural and spiritual worlds, and preserve and transmit cosmological and cosmogonical belief systems.

With this as our ultimate goal, in the following chapters we will explore the cosmology, cosmogony, and moral philosophy that have informed the use and meaning of graphic writing among the Bakongo over time and will explore in detail the traditions that shape the systematic use of this system. We will see that these traditions demonstrate an undeniable continuity between contemporary graphic writing systems used in Central Africa and those used in Cuba and between these systems and millennia-old rupestrian art found in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Bakongo examine the powerful and central role that graphic communication has played in transmitting cultural knowledge, values, and beliefs from generation to generation, thus preserving cultural, social, and spiritual identity throughout periods of extreme disruption

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CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 The Atlantic Passage: The Spread of Kongo Belief in Africa and to the Americas

CHAPTER 3 The Process of Meaning Making: The Kongo Universe

CHAPTER 4 Afro-Atlantic Graphic Writing: Bidimbu, Bisinsu, and Firmas

CHAPTER 5 Beyond the Scripture: Physical Forms of Graphic Writing

CHAPTER 6 Conclusion

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Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti

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this one is for dilla

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Propansity to grasp the forbidden fruit 🍏

By @xavierart94

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8)  

 this track never gets old, forever loved