The Sacred Language of the Abakuá by Lydia Cabrera

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

Lydia Cabrera

462 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los igos, an Abaku 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 fro...

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