In a message dated 3/11/01 4:17:48 AM !!!First Boot!!!, [log in to unmask]
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<< That Mansa Abubacar II relinquished the throne of Mali to his relative
Mansa Musa and set sail with a thousand ships off the coast of Senegambia
across the atlantic is not a Black American 'feel good' ;make-belief, but a
fact recounted by Mande Jalis. >>

This reminds me of a great performance by Ballet D'Afrique Noire which
Latjor, Karamba and I saw at the Kennedy Center. The ' Mandinka Epic '
produced by Mamadou Mansour Gueye, directed and choreographed by Jean Pierre
Leurs is a must see show. Guess I should add that it is heavy on oral
history...but then again much of our history is undocumented.
Musa.

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