Ghanaba (left) and Mutabaruka. The Remembrance Night in the course of the 3rd Panafrican Festival (Panafest 1997 in Accra, Cape Coast, and Elmina) started with a torch procession to Cape Coast Castle where Mutabaruka performed some of his poems and gave a speech on the postcolonial aftermath of transatlantic slavery. He was joined by Ghanaba, the late Ghanian masterdrummer who co-starred with Mutabaruka on this very location in the film Sankofa. The group of Ghanaba represented scenes related to slavery.

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Related publications: Mutabaruka, Sebastian Schwager, and Werner Zips: Mutabaruka: The Verbal Swordsman. Perspectives from the Cutting Edge and Steppin Razor. Kingston/Jamaica and Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2023. Werner Zips (ed.): Rastafari: Eine universale Philosophie im dritten Jahrtausend (second revised and expanded edition). Vienna: Promedia, 2010.