IROKO, the story of a consecrated ceiba tree from ma aunt Watch Video
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Description: IROKO narrates the encounter of several generations of a rural Afro-Cuban family at the foot of a Ceiba. The tree grows over the relics of the Yoruba enslaved from the Villa Nera plantation, considered for them a living temple. The Selier family, guardians of the site for three generations, pilgrimage to the site annually, attending and celebrating the spirit of the ancestors.nAfter a decade collecting stories of Afro Cuban rural women, the artist and scholar Yesenia Selier returned to Cuba. Bes
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