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Josefa Diago and the Origins of Cuba’s Gangá Traditions
- Transition
- Indiana University Press
- Issue 111, 2013
- pp. 132-144
- Article
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In the mid 1800s, a girl who would later be christened Josefa was loaded aboard a slave ship in…Liberia? Sierra Leone? Emma Christopher discovers that Josefa’s Cuban descendants still sing her songs, and reunites the Gangá with their West African kin.