ACTIVITIES FOR AFRICAN AWARENESS MONTH got under way with a ceremony at Browne’s Beach, Bay Street, yesterday morning.
Members of the different organisations making up the Pan-African Coalition of Organisations in Barbados gathered to lay wreaths and pay tribute to the thousands of African brothers and sisters who perished during the passage of the transatlantic slave trade.
As part of the symbolic ceremony, incense was lit and libations poured for the ancestors and those like I’Akobi Maloney who would have died subsequently from “misadventure” or other causes.
The sound of the drums carried along the stretch of the beach as the group chanted and sang choruses as they paid homage to the ancestors. The highlight of the ceremony was the laying of a wreath and flowers into the water. (YB)
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