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The names Mami Wata, Mami Wota, or Mammy Wata derive from the English language nouns mammy and water. The name is related to the Krio word mami wata that refers to mermaids in Krio folklore. [1] Krio is an English-based creole language used in parts of West Africa. The Mami element derives from English mother. However, Mami Wata has no children ...
The album includes the song "Soweto Blues" performed by Miriam Makeba.The song is about the Soweto uprising against apartheid that occurred in 1976. The songs "You Told Your Mama Not to Worry" and "Mami Wata" were re-released on CD in 1998 on Verve Records as additional part of his previous album The Boy's Doin' It.
The Madre de aguas (Mother of water), also known as Magüi, is a mythical creature in the folklore of Cuba.She goes by the name of Mama Glo in Creole Folklore, in other islands she is called Mami Wata as well as Watramama.
Shot in dense, high-contrast black and white, writer-director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s “Mami Wata,” unspools like a mysterious dream. It’s both inscrutable and hypnotic, delivering ...
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Among their biggest hits were the songs "Mami Wata" and "Armee Guineenne". Bembeya Jazz National’s most ambitious album, Regard Sur Le Passe , released in 1968, was a musical tribute to the memory of Samory Touré , who founded a Mande conquest state in much of what is now northern Guinea in 1870, and who became a nationalist emblem following ...
For decades, the image of a surf lifestyle has been one of Southern California’s chief exports, but for too long it’s been tied to an all-white, geographically limited ideal. South African ...
Some water spirits in traditional African religion include: Mami Wata is a transcultural pantheon of water spirits and deities of the African diaspora. For the many names associated with Mami Wata spirits and goddess, see Names of Mami Wata. [1] Owu Mmiri of some riverine people of Nigeria are often described as mermaid-like spirit of water. [2]