The Abeng (A-beng) refers to a kind of animal horn used in the African diaspora to facilitate communication within communities of maroons
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THE CALL
July 9, 2016
February 19, 2016 by Vincent Wimbush “I wish [we] knew how it would feel to be free”: The Subjunctive Mood …in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and redistributed according to a certain number of procedures, whose role is to avert its powers and its dangers, to cope with...READ MORE