The Ashé Cultural Arts Center celebrates 25 years of Maafa with events Saturday (June 28) and July 5, commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Maafa is Kiswahili for “great tragedy,” in reference ...
Maafa Commemoration Ifaseyi Sable Bamigbala Apetebi, a Yoruba priestess, speaks to a crowd gathered at Congo Square Saturday morning, July 5, for Maafa, a program presented by the Ashe'Cultural Arts ...