JAF
Mwen pa gen okenn pwoblèm ak sa ou di yo.Pètèt mwen pa te two klè.Sam te vle di ,sè ke ou pap wè moun mande Ewopeyen-Ameriken si yo se ewopeyen men yo toujou ap mande Afriken ki nan Amerik yo si yo se Afriken.
Gen de kominote nan Amerik yo ki pi Afriken(sim ka ize expresyon sa a)ke sak nan Kontinan an.
Map pran kòm exanp GARIFUNA yo nan Honduras ak Belize.
YUNGAS yo ki nan Bolivi.
Kominote sa yo antre yo, pa pale ni angle ,ni espayòl men yon lang ke 3/4 mo se Yoruba.
Ou gen tou Ozetazini nan Karolin di Sid yon kominote yo rele GEETCHEES,se nan Pines Island ak yon kote yo rele Africatown yo ye,lè yap pale antre yo ou pa fouti konprann paske pi fò mo yo se Yoruba ak lòt mo.
Kominote sa yo ap fè tousa ki posib pou tradisyon yo siviv.
An palan de Garifuna yo ,mwen te gen yon zanmi Garifuna ki te rete nan Bronx.Mon chè lè madanm misie kwuit yon akra ak yon kouskous ,se koupe dwèt.
Brezil menm se pa pale ,Brezil se yon laboratwa pou etidye kouman Lafrik te ye.Genyen yon òganizasyon nan Washington ki rele OAA(Organization of africans in America).Youn nan sekretè òganizasyon sa a se Sam Ford.Sam Ford se yon pèsonalite radio ak televizyon trè koni nan Washington.
Sam Ford tal patisipe nan yon konferans nan Bahia (Salvador de Bahia).Ford di lè li rive nan aewopò nèg ki vin chèche la bal yon lan men.Li mande misie si li gen zanmi Senegalè,paske se konsa Senegalè bay nan men.Nèg la repon li non ,li te konprann ke lan men sa a se Brezilyen ki te envente li.
Men sa Sam Ford kontinye pou l di:
//It is a city where "Mothers and Fathers of the saints",the priestesses and priestsof the African Religion "Candomble"are among the most respected citizens wooed by white politicians and covered frequently by the local TV and newspaper media.They still perform their ceremonies in the Yoruba language of West Africa,a somewhat different version than is spoken in Nigeria today.
But as London University Religion professor Peter Clarke said,BAHIA is in many ways more African than Africa is.He has lived in Nigeria and visits Salvador de Bahia once a year.He said "Nigerians come here and they think this place is out of step with tradition in Nigeria,but in fact it's in step.It's conserved and preserved things that Nigerians no longer remember.
Clarke &other historians say from the style of drumming to CAPOEIRA a fight dance that came from Angola,but which Angolans no longer do Bahia has PRESERVED AFRICAN CULTURE.
There is an important African dimension to everything that is going here and it's sometimes described as if it's Brazilianized African but it is in fact old African that has been lost to Africans ,said the London professor//
Vous voyez mon cher Jaf ,dans plusieurs cas ,nous sommes plus africains que les africains restés sur le continent.Il ne faut pas oublier que la colonisation est encore fraiche en Afrique sans ne pas oublier la néocolonisation.