When the Motherland and the Diaspora meet (2)

August 28, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Regular readers of my blog would know that I love black history and black culture. I love it when black people come together to create magic, and then in particular magic in the form of music. In the past I blogged about, what I called African Fusion songs, which were songs made out of some […]

They connected…!

June 28, 2020.Reading time 58 minutes.

They connected…! A list of African words in African Suriname languages

Nursery Rhymes Nostalgia

July 21, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

I consider myself very blessed to be raised in one of the countries of the Diaspora where all the ethnic groups, whether they were of African or Asian descent, were able to retain a lot of their original culture. I recently stumbled upon these two lovely songs from my childhood. In the first song, children […]