Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (film and discussion)

Cambridge Performance Studies Forum

Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants (film and discussion)
Shihan de Silva (University of London)

This session features a film produced and directed by Shihan de Silva on the easterly movement of Africans both voluntary and involuntary. Performing traditional art forms enables Afro-Sri Lankans to carve out a niche in the cultural arena of their hostland. Fading memories of slavery and the slave trade can still be heard in the narratives of their oral histories.