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Marie-Line Dahomay & Kalindi-Ka - Yo (1999)
Posted by Sisca Cute Love U in *Music*, *South and Central America*, Caribbeans, Guadeloupe on Wednesday, October 21, 2009
«The islands of Guadeloupe were colonized by the French in 1635. Under their watch the indigenous Carib Indians were routed and African slaves were brought onto the islands and forced to work in the burgeoning sugar industry. Several hundred years later, soon after the French abolished slavery on Guadeloupe in 1848, the island’s plantation owners had workers from one of France’s East Indian
