12 Days in Senegal: An Artist's Journey
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The twelve-day sabbatical included Senegals cultural destinations: Dakar, Pink Lake, Saint Louis, Saly/Mbour, and a tour of the Door of No Return on Beer (Gore) Island. While there, I maintained three daily journals: a written journal, a video journal, and a sketch journal. From those works, I created a video documentary that includes the guided tour of the Slave Mansion on Beer Island, a greeting card collection called the Sankofa Collection that features the twelve sketches and a photo of me jumping into the ocean at Beer Island, and a photo poetry book titled I See Hip-Hop Afrika, as well as this book, which is my twelve-day account of the journey.
Travel along with me as I take you through the rich cultural countrysides and cities of Senegal. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be intrigued by the people and places I encounter, as well as enjoy the sketches I create from each days experience.
My prayer is that you find something useful in these accounts. Something that will help you see the world, and our place in it, a little clearer. A hope that in these words you find some peace in knowing and loving Africa. And in this book, you are consoled by the beauty that is our homeland.
Makeda Kumasi
Makeda Kumasi is founder and artistic director of the Umoja Ensemble of the Inland Empire and cofounder of We 3 Productions, which she developed with her sister, Alisha Mcdonald, in 2001. She has been a featured spoken word artist, including performances at the Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood and the Ogdensburg Theater in New York, as well as television appearances on BET's “Fly Poet” and MTV's “Starting Over.” As a West African dancer, she has performed with two prominent Southern California African dance companies, Abalaye; an Orange County arts group; and Niancho Eniyale African performers. She also appeared on season 1 of “So You Think You Can Dance?” television competition. Makeda’s interests in dance include traditional African and popular dances of African origin, from Belize, Central America. She has studied various other dance styles, including jazz, modern, belly dance, African Caribbean, hip-hop, and praise dance. In 2014, she received a professional development grant from UC Riverside to study West African dance in Senegal. However, she gives credit to her master teachers in America, Nzingha Camara and Mareme Faye. Makeda has received other awards and recognitions, including California Art Scholar in Dance, Phyllis E Williams’ Writers’ Grant, Top Spoken Word Artist Los Angeles Black Business Expo Urban Idol Competition, California State University, Fullerton, African American Faculty and Staff Association Scholarship, University of Southern California Black Alumni Association Scholar, Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations Presidential Service Pin, and the Ida Mae Holland Playwright Scholarship. Makeda holds a master of fine arts (MFA) in playwriting from the University of Southern California, a master of education (MED) from the University of Phoenix, and a bachelor of arts (BA) in communications from California State University, Fullerton. She is also wife and a mother of three beautiful children.
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