Sacred Language of the Abakuá
Cabrera, Lydia / Gómes-Cásseres, P Gonz / Miller, Ivor
In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution's history in A...
