Inbetween Uncle Tom, intifada's, opstanden & songs


ADAMIETEN/ARABIEREN/ARIERS/ARKBEWONERS
AKELIGE ASSOCIATIES & ASOCIALE POLITIEK:
SEGREGATION continued



Iedereen
heeft het
ooit wel ergens
geleerd op school of
ervan gehoord: DE 'afschaffing v/d slavernij'?!

Maar als je de oude
[nieuwe & huidige] Midden Oosterse volken beschreven ziet
in 't OT & tijdens ons koloniale tijdperk,
dan zit er in beide gevallen meer
achter dan je op 't eerste gezicht
zou vermoeden dat er
'a/d hand is'.

De rol
van genetische kenmerken,
primitieve gedragspatronen, "onze kolonies"
& neokolonialisme verbergt nog heel veel dat toegedekt is
met de sluiers van mysterie, mystiek, maffe maffiosi & huidige mensen~
handel van mensen van alle leeftijden, rassen, beroerde
omstandigheden, onderontwikkeling
& "volksoverschotten"!


MANY GODS
AND WRY STORIES:

DURING THE SLAVE TRADING ERA
the religions of West Africa were a complex system of beliefs
involving both a supreme being and numerous nature gods, as well as ancestor spirits & magic.

In the Gold Coast it remains so today {1956!} ~ less than a fifth of the people are Christian.

In the Ashanti's unwritten "literature," inventiveness and improvisation are noteworthy.

It is still common for families or local groups to meet after dark to listen to storytellers;
frequently between or even during the stories,
actors will leap up & give
impersonations of
the characters
involved.

Those stories,
sometimes composed on the spot,
often contain strong satire. The teller invariably prefaces his remarks
with "We don't really mean to say this is so," then lambastes an unpopular priest or chief.

Under this license even slaves could and did arise
to expose their masters.

The license expired
with the storytelling
session, but the existence of satire
bespoke an observant and independent mind.

SPIRIT WORSHIPPERS
sway to the chanting of a priestess,
whose face is daubed with white clay:
in such a service the object of worship is a powerful, benign spirit
who has been summoned by prayer & now occupies the ornate basket
the priestess wears on her head. Among the Ashanti, Thursday corresponds tot the Sabbath.
On that day, which is sacred to the earth goddess,
no one may work
in the fields.

HUNTERS,
having set fire to an area of grass
to drive their game into the open, close in for the kill.
Usually they are after an African variety of hedgehog, which they kill in great numbers during the dry spell
lasting from November to Febrary. Clubbed to death, the hedgehogs are then cleaned and smoked, like hams & in some parts of the Gold Coast today
hunting for meat is still a
'recognized occupation'.

STORYTELLERS
regale an audience with Ashanti folk tales.
For many centuries, in a country with no written, native language,
storytellers have served as walking libraries. Most of the stories have charm & a wry, philosophical twist.
The socalled Uncle remus stories about a lovable Negro, common throughout the old U.S. South, stemmed from tales brought to America
by the West Africans.

Droom er maar lekker van:
sleep well, dream sweet & tell us
all about it tomorrow
if you really
want to
do so
...
engel

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