Paranda: Africa in Central America (1998)
Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in *Africa*, *Music*, *South and Central America*, Belize on Monday, April 7, 2008
«Paranda is a musical tradition of the Garifuna, whose ancestry can be traced to West Africans (Ibo, Yoruba, and Ashanti tribes) and the Arawak Indians of the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. Today the Garifuna live in Belize, where they established communities in 1802 after being first exiled to Honduras from their native St. Vincent, then fleeing Honduras to escape a civil war. Paranda
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