The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

by Lydia Cabrera

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los igos, an Abaku phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abaku societies for protection and mutual aid. Abaku rites reenact mythic legends of the institution's history in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496829441
• ISBN13: 9781496829443
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 2.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"