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IMAGES FROM THE AFRICANA WORLD
Bookend from Senegal
Trinidad J'overt Festival. Carnival reveler is playing "mud/paint" mas as a way to symbolize rebirth. Photo by Natasha Nunez.
Black female worker taking a break at the Danneman Cigar Factory in Brazil. Photo by Tanya Shields
"El Yanga." A statue of Yanga, a Muslim man from what is now known as Nigeria who negotiated with the Spanairds to establish a free black community named after him in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
"My brother of the Diaspora, history separates us." Written on the wall of the Maison d'esclaves at Goree Island in Senegal. Photo by Sheba Kane.
Nkrumah Statue