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DEEP OBEAH on Vimeo

roi kwabena, poetry, trinidad, visual anthropology

This is my animation of a musical spoken word poem by my late friend and collaborator, Dr. Roi Kwabena. The piece is titled "Deep Obeah" and is perhaps the most musical and most sung of the pieces he produced that made their way onto his Y42K album.

WEST INDIA on Vimeo

caribbean, poetry, roi kwabena

A production of "West India," a musical spoken poem by my late friend and collaborator, Dr. Roi Kwabena, from his Y42K album. This video plays on the weight of Eurocentric constructions of Caribbean history and identity, a zone where hegemonic European and American fantasies were played out. In response, Kwabena calls for a reclamation of an alternative identity, a localized and indigenous one, that emerges from within the region's primordial self.

Sour Chutney: by Dr. Roi Kwabena

trinidad, poetry, anthropology, roi kwabena

The late Dr. Roi Kwabena's musical spoken poem, Sour Chutney, from his Y42K album. The material has been animated using photos and documentary footage of East Indian life in Trinidad and Tobago, most of it dating to the early part of the first half of the 20th century. Roi Kwabena was a Trinidadian musician, poet, and cultural anthropologist. This story ties together the large scale forces of world capitalism with the geography of diasporic India and the personal biographies of a fictitious family of Indian

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