NEGRO YANGA

KPALANUMA
WHY
NEGRO YANGA
ROCK OF AGES
MALICH PEC
YALIWE DRUM MASTER
TIM BIM TI NAAY
KWAJIE
CIELITO LINDO
MENTE ANALITICA (Instrumental)
FABULOUS IN WAR
ONE GOD
YOUR SHADOW  

         This Roots And Wisdom cd was released in 2007 as a tribute to EL NEGRO YANGA, founder of the first black town in the Americas to become free from slavery. The town is named YANGA, VERACRUZ, about halfway between Cordoba and the Port of Veracruz in Mexico.  Yanga is one of the homes of black people in Mexico even though you barely see a black man or woman there these days. They have mostly migrated to the U.S. or breeded out.
      By accident or destiny, Mr. Yanga's name is also well known and used in Nigerian pidgeon English to describe people who are "too proud of themselves". "You de make yanga!" people will say.

African Djembe and hand drumer Owen Towles participated strongly in this recording both as a player and engineer.

  

 Before I came to know Mexico well, I thought that there were no black Mexicans. I have since visited "La Costa Chica" of Oaxaca and Guererro, and now I sing about the first black town in the Americas to become free from slavery, YANGA, VERACRUZ.

Antes de que yo conoci a Mexico, yo pensaba que no hubo gente negra Mexicanas. Pero ya conosco a "La Costa Chica", y ahora canto de YANGA, VERACRUZ, el primero pueblo negro libre de esclavitud en los Americas.
-Wisdom Ogbor (Roots And Wisdom)
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