Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade nigeria preserving and celebrating the histories

preserving and celebrating the histories of Black people in Britain

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Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager

Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade nigeria preserving and celebrating the historiesCharles Frger explores the masks, costumes and characters created by the descendants of Africans and indigenous peoples in the Americas All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish American term for these