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    worn on many Ekpe and Abakuá ritual costumes. Abakuá has been described as "an Afro-Cuban version of Freemasonry". The term Abakuá lively comes from Àbàkpà...
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    of religious Cuban Abakuá traditions. The drum patterns of the lowest conga drum is essentially the same in both columbia and Abakuá. The rhythmic phrasing...
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    Ekpe (section Abakuá)
    the redistribution of wealth by providing the poor with food and drink. Abakuá is an Afro-Cuban men's initiatory fraternity, or secret society, which originated...
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    developed an overlap with Afro-Cuban religious traditions such as Santería and Abakuá. Growing transnational links between Africa and the Americas during the...
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    Tambor de Mina Umbanda Xangô de Recife [pt] Colombian Yuyu Lumbalú (es) Abakuá Arará religion Cuban Vodú Palo Santería Montamentu Dominican Vudú Big Drum...
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    Orientis P.E.O. Sisterhood Tong Abakuá Secret societies in the United States that are non-collegiate include: Abakuá Fenians Freemasonry Hunters' Lodges...
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    iron bell (ekón) part in abakuá music. The form of rumba known as columbia is culturally and musically connected with abakuá which is an Afro Cuban cabildo...
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    Xangô do Nordeste, Comfa, Espiritismo, Santo Daime, Obeah, Candomblé, Abakuá, Kumina, Winti, Sanse, Cuban Vodú, Dominican Vudú, Louisiana Voodoo, Haitian...
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  • Abakwa may refer to: Bamenda, a city in Cameroon Abakuá, a secret society with roots in eastern Nigeria, and the style of music played by its members This...
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  • religion Ifá Indigenous religion in Zimbabwe Shona traditional religion Abakuá Arara religion Batuque Candomblé Candomblé Bantu Candomblé Jejé Candomblé...
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  • or evil, though some sources consider them an evil version of a houngan. Abakuá, an Afro-Cuban religion whose name possibly shares the same etymology Clairvius...
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  • Catholics and practice additional Afro-Cuban traditions such as Santería or Abakuá. Palo is most heavily practiced in eastern Cuba although is found throughout...
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    Basin, and Abakuá, which has its origins among the secret male societies practiced among the Efik-Ibibio. Many practitioners of Palo and Abakuá also follow...
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  • groups are known in Cuba as Carabali, and their religious organization as Abakuá. The street name for them in Cuba was Ñáñigos. The Dahomey, from Benin....
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    the Afrocubans singing funky sones (El Guayabero) or even guaguancós and abakuá (Chicho Ibáñez). It rules out, perhaps unfairly, singers who accompanied...
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    quoting phrases from the vocabulary of the abakuá bonkó drum. Using brushes, Willie Bobo plays an abakuá bell pattern on a snare drum. This cross-rhythmic...
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    Her Long Night". NPR. Retrieved 22 June 2015. "PRESENCIA DE LA SOCIEDAD ABAKUÁ EN FERNANDO POO A FINALES DEL SIGLO XIX" (PDF). p. 7. Today, although there...
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    Congo basin, giving rise to religious dances such as Santería, yuka and abakuá, as well as secular forms such as rumba. Many of these dance elements from...
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  • about Afro-Cuban religions, especially focusing on the Abakuá. Being a secret society, the Abakuás were reluctant to talk to her about their religion. Since...
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    annually on 8 September. Other religions practised are Palo Monte, and Abakuá, which have large parts of their liturgy in African languages. The flag...
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    bolero, chachachá, salsa, son montuno, timba, guajira, danzón, rumba and abakua. They are known internationally for their 1997 album A Toda Cuba le Gusta...
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    the Abakuá, a secret society from the Cross River region of present day southern Nigeria and northern Cameroon. The rhythmic phrasing of the abakuá lead...
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  • Jeuneafrique.com, October 7, 2002 (in French). "PRESENCIA DE LA SOCIEDAD ABAKUÁ EN FERNANDO POO A FINALES DEL SIGLO XIX" (PDF). p. 7. Today, although there...
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  • created. The group used a wide array of percussion instruments like batá, abakuá and arará drums, chequerés, erikundis, maracas, claves, cencerros, bongó...
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    continues to be used, albeit in a creolized form, in ceremonies of the Abakuá society, equivalent or derived from the Ekpe society in modern Nigeria....
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  • Religious music Abakuá Arará Iyesá Makuta Palo Santería Yuka Traditional music Changüí Coros de clave Kiribá Nengón Tumba francesa...
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  • Religious music Abakuá Arará Iyesá Makuta Palo Santería Yuka Traditional music Changüí Coros de clave Kiribá Nengón Tumba francesa...
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    traditions which are mixed together under the general title of Santería (Abakuá, Arara, Congo, Yoruba). In 1996 Coleman along with a group of 10 musicians...
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  • collography. Ayón created large, highly detailed allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white...
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  • Cubans annually on 8 September. Other religions practiced are Palo Monte and Abakuá, which have large parts of their liturgy in African languages. Although...
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