Camara Laye: Conversation about Africa
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Camara Laye talked about griots who transmit the oral culture of Africa; his work as oral historian; the novel he was writing; the seven African countries that compressed the Empire Mali and the countries' shared culture; Kinte project with Alex Haley; African civilization as a social, humanistic civilization and European civilization as a mechanic civilization; expanded African family versus limited European family; limited independence of Africa; and regrouping of Africa. Following Camara Laye lecture, the remainder of the recording includes a demonstration/conversation about tie dying technique; and two women conversing about an alphabet book of African culture and what they are going to do the following day.
- Lecture. Audio Only. French with English interpretation. AV001386: poor audio quality. Dated 19770728.
- Date
- 1977
- Extent
- 2 Sound recordings (audio cassette)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Topic
- African Americans
- African culture
- Oral history
- Storytelling
- Griots
- Place
- Africa, West
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Citation
- Camara Laye: Conversation about Africa, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-031, Item ACMA AV001375_A
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV001375_B ACMA AV001386_A
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- Date
- 1979-02 - 1980-02