Resources to Learn More
Here are Books, Articles, Videos and Websites to learn more about African Dance and Maps
These Videos teach about the history of the migration of the Eʋe people out of the walled city of Nortsie in the 14th century. The Agbadza, Milanorvisi, and Atsiagbekor dances recall this history.
Websites
Logo Ligi and Akpe Cultural Center link Boulder, USA, to Kokrobite, Ghana by sharing African Dance and Drumming with communities in the United States and Ghana! Visit their Websites to learn more.
https://akpeculturalcentre.com/
Works Cited
Indigenous Maps of Africa
Bassett, Thomas J. “Indigenous Mapmaking in Intertropical Africa.” In The History of Cartography, 2:24–48. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Agbadza and Nortsie
Kuwor, Sylvanus Kwashie. “Understanding African Dance in Context: Perspectives from Ghana.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 10, no. 4 (2017): 47–64.
Choreo as Cartography
Noxolo, Pat. “Moving Maps: African-Caribbean Dance as Embodied Mapping.” In Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ 2 : Diaspora, Memory and Intimacy, edited by Sarah Barbour, David Howard, Thomas Lacroix, and Judith Misrahi-Barak, 173–94. Horizons Anglophones. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pulm.9268.
Oral Tradition as Historical Text
Vansina, Jan. Oral Tradition as History. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb02676.0001.001.
Gahu, Gome, Kpanlogo, Fume Fume, and many more Dances
Younge, Paschal Yao. Music and Dance Traditions of Ghana. McFarland and Company, Inc., 2011.