Saturday 11 April, 11.00 - 12.15
Lecture Room. Free, no booking required.
Film produced by Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London; Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; Faculty of History and African Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
This 43-minute documentary film combines ethnography with history and heritage to narrate the story of African movement eastwards through the Indian Ocean World and beyond to the Pacific Ocean. The film highlights African music as a vibrant legacy through the genres of manja, kaffrinha and baila in Sri Lanka. Ancient migrations less known than the transAtlantic African movement to the Americas are brought to the fore. Moreover, the achievements of some enslaved Africans in the East, albeit freed, within the sociocultural worlds that they entered into, are unparalleled in the Atlantic World. The film will be of interest to those concerned with lost African diasporas globally. Film producer, Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, will be present at the event and there will an opportunity for Q&A and discussion after the screening.
