David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead a music and dance concert. Part 1 of 7 is KINIWE musicians and dancers peforming TAKAI a circle dance in which dancers strike rods against their neighbor's. TAKAI began as a peace dance: Dagomba warriors discovered they were at war with a neighboring ethnic group with whom they shared a common ancestor. Rather than fight they struck their swords together in a rhythmic dance. The leading lunga drum says, "Chief says, 'Listen to the drums.'" The other drums say, "Stop the fight!" (David Locke) For more see
http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead a music and dance concert. Part 2 of 7 is KINIWE musicians and dancers peforming TAKAI a circle dance in which dancers strike rods against their neighbor's. TAKAI began as a peace dance: Dagomba warriors discovered they were at war with a neighboring ethnic group with whom they shared a common ancestor. Rather than fight they struck their swords together in a rhythmic dance. The leading lunga drum says, "Chief says, 'Listen to the drums.'" The other drums say, "Stop the fight!" (David Locke) For more see
http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead a drum concert. Part 3 of 7 is KINIWE drummers performing SALMA, Praise Name Drumming in which each composition is associated with a political leader within the kingdom of Dagbon. The drum language is proverbs that refer to the circumstances by which the person became chief and impart a moral lesson or observation of the world. (David Locke) For more see
http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead a drum concert. Part 4 of 7 is KINIWE drummers performing SALMA, Praise Name Drumming in which each composition is associated with a political leader within the kingdom of Dagbon. The drum language is proverbs that refer to the circumstances by which the person became chief and impart a moral lesson or observation of the world. (David Locke) For more see
http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead KINIWE in a drum and dance concert. Part 5 of 7 is TORA, a "game-like dance in which dancers knock buttocks together on the cadential moment of drumming. Begun with a domestic tragedy it became a happiness dance for females. The drums say, "Listen to the elders [to avoid trouble]." (David Locke) See more at
http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead a drum concert. Part 6 of 7 is Agbekor Society Dagomba drummers performing SALMA, Praise Name Drumming in which each composition is associated with a political leader within the kingdom of Dagbon. The drum language is proverbs that refer to the circumstances by which the person became chief and impart a moral lesson or observation of the world. (David Locke) For more see http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
David Locke and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna lead KINIWE in a drum and dance concert. Part 7 of 7 is BAAMAAYA, a "dance begun in a time of food shortage, as an expression of happiness and gratitude for a good farmers' rain. Children began dance-like playing, using corn shucks around their waists for fun. Adults were inspired to shape the children's antics into a formal dance retaining the spirit of youthful joking." (David Locke) See more at
http://dagomba.uit.tufts.edu
This is the January 7, 2003 episode of Enough Room on Cable TV Access in Cambridge MA. Subjects discussed include: a market roof collapse, FBI Boston, Disability Rights, Psychiatry, DNA evidence. Cameron Diaz and Salma Hayek are shown as examples of the Truth. Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan shown here cutting off public comment is no longer a City Councilor. He is now the Clerk of the Middlesex Courts. Middlesex County was dissolved due to thorough corruption. Michael Sullivan replaced his uncle Edward who was the court clerk for 10,000 years. The Courthouse is named for him. Michael's father, his grandfather and his uncle were all city councilors before him. The Sullivan Family have a tad influence in the politics of the area. The City Council Chambers is named for Michael's Father.
Speaking as the Chief Yolk Inspector for the Mid Cambridge Society of Egg Laying Hens and their paramours in Eastern Massachusetts, Concerned Citizen Roy Bercaw urges the City Council to bring Susan Anspach, Uma Thurman, Salma Hayek and Madeline Stowe to Cambridge to beautify the intersection of Broadway and Hampshire Street.
He laments the failure of the City Council, the City Manager, the School Committee and the Superintendent of Schools to include persons with disabilities in the city's affirmative action hiring goals as required by city policy, state and US laws. He notes that there are four lawyers on the city council and at least six with graduate degrees. They cannot use the stupid defense saying "I did not know."
Bercaw calls the Council clueless, careless, shameless and lawless. He reveals deceptive responses by the City Manager and the CEO of the Cambridge Health Alliance to questions from the City Council.
