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Ta Boh M'Bareh Dankawalie = Visit My Home

Title
Ta Boh M'Bareh Dankawalie = Visit My Home / Directed and Filmed by Kewulay Kamara.
Publication
2015.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Kamara, Kewulay
  • Riley, Justin
Description
1 streaming video file (16 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
"Taboh M'bareh is a photographic journey to Dankawalie village in northeastern Sierra Leone. Dankawalie is situated under the Bandanbeh (the great silk cotton tree) in the foothills of the Loma Mountains, the watershed of the great River Niger that draws a wide arch across West Africa as it flows northeast and southwest into the Gulf of Guinea. Ta Boh M'bareh takes the viewer from the Island of Jamaica by air to land in Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone. Repatriated and emancipated Africans from North America and England founded Freetown. Maroons from Jamaica and more Africans from slaving ships intercepted towards the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade later joined this group. Collectively, their descendants are known as Creole and they speak a language called Krio. Once in Freetown, Ta Boh M'bareh moves from the viewer through the busy streets of Freetown to Dankawalie, over two hundred miles into the interior, where tradition and transformation are evident. In Dankawalie, deep traditions endure and the young flower in the wisdom and caring hands of elders. Everyone, young and old, takes pride in work. Music and dance are everywhere. Fun does not spoil seriousness. Work is play and play is work. Traditional education meets modern education. In the flowing streams, rushing rapids and broad smiles bring the abundant riches in nature and culture. Everywhere, people interact with plants and animals. And children learn to care for all. For over thirty years, poet storyteller Kewulay Kamara documents life in Dankawalie." -- notes from Vimeo, Ta Boh M'bareh Dankawalie.
Alternative Title
Visit My Home
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Filmed dance.
  • Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Note
  • Widescreen.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
Credits (note)
  • Music, El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyate (Boloba), Medo Kuyateh, Jali Karifa and Jali Konde (Nafulé), Jali Tigi Sury Gibateh and Jalli Manomoh Sury 'Nyatisufah' Gibateh (Fakolie) ; edit by Justin Riley, Kewulay Kamara.
Source (note)
  • Kewulay Kamara ;
Call Number
*MGZIDF 5007
OCLC
906940483
Title
Ta Boh M'Bareh Dankawalie = Visit My Home / Directed and Filmed by Kewulay Kamara.
Production
2015.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file streaming H.264
Access
Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
Event
Videotaped during visit to Dankawalie, Sierra Leone, 2015 March 16.
Credits
Music, El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyate (Boloba), Medo Kuyateh, Jali Karifa and Jali Konde (Nafulé), Jali Tigi Sury Gibateh and Jalli Manomoh Sury 'Nyatisufah' Gibateh (Fakolie) ; edit by Justin Riley, Kewulay Kamara.
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Added Author
Kamara, Kewulay, director.
Kamara, Kewulay, filmmaker.
Kamara, Kewulay, editor.
Riley, Justin, editor.
Kamara, Kewulay, donor.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 5007
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