Poetry performance by Ashanti Dinah Orozco
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In November 2022 the Cluster Project "Black Atlantic revisited - African and South American UNESCO-world heritage sites and "shadowed spaces" of performative memory" presented this poetry performance by Ashanti Dinah Orozco. The performance was titled "Muntú: palabras liberadas del cepo y el latigo" (Muntú: words freed from whip and clam). The event was moderated by Gilbert Shang Ndi.
Ashanti Dinah Orozco is a doctoral student in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, with a primary field in Romance Languages & Literatures. Her research has focused on investigating and analyzing the literary works of Afro-Latin American authors. She is the author of the collection of poems Las Semillas del Muntu (The seeds of Muntu).
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- Poetry performance by Ashanti Dinah Orozco
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- English
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- June 11, 2023
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- ladies and gentlemen thank you for for coming my name is Gilbert shanzi from Cameroon and Colombia I should say and it's a pleasure to have you this evening uh in kurtu house by right welcome to the University of biroid to Africa multiple cluster of excellence and specifically to the research group black Atlantic Revisited where we seek to study narratives of transatlantic slavery and slave trade from the West African Coast to the Americas specifically we are focusing on the Colombian Caribbean coast and Salvador Bahia so today we began our day with a keynote by Dr Javier Ortiz from the University of katahena and we are continuing this time in poetry performance with Ashanti Dina Orozco from the neighboring city of Barranquilla Colombia so it's a pleasure to have you accompany us for this for this poetic evening for one and a half hour uh we know that many people are following on us on YouTube and it's our pleasure to to really have them because uh during coffee we learned that we have several priorities but to spare time and be with us for one hour 30 minutes uh we are really grateful for that so welcome and keep your comments coming on YouTube even if we are not able to respond to the comments live uh Ashanti will look at the comments later on when the YouTube videos are published and would of course respond and and of course we are going to have we also have a live audience here and please feel free at the end of the day to also uh have your question so we are going to have uh Ashanti horoscope with us performing uh poetry who is Ashanti Orozco Ashanti horoscope is a doctoral students at the University of Harvard in the department of African and African American studies with the primary field of romance languages and literatures she has a degree in education from the University there then atlantico in Barranquilla Colombia and a master's degree in Hispanic literature from the institution Bogota which is a very important Institute as far as afro uh Colombian… Read the full text about 7,539 words
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