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AraráArará people are found in Matanzas and Havana. They come from modern day Benin, which includes the old Dahomey and are known as Rada in Haiti. Ojun Degara
Benin, Dahomey,
Cuba, Brazil, the US, Haiti and Vodoun
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Matanzas, un trozo de África en Cuba 11/26/2018 Cuba Ahora: "“La presencia de esta amplia gama de religiones y culturas desarrolló en Matanzas uno de los entornos más significativos de la mezcla de sus raíces. Surgieron así denominaciones y grupos étnicos que manifestaron sus religiones a través del renacimiento de sus creencias expresadas en la Regla de Osha o Santería de origen Yoruba, la Regla Palo Monte de origen Bantú, la Regla Arará de origen dahomeyano y la Regla Enklori Enyeni Abakúa de origen Calabar”, explicó Yoelkis Torres Tápanes, líder del proyecto AfroAtenas."
Edición 13 del evento Cuba Benin, en Jovellanos con la familia Baro 8/16/2018 Tere
Arara: "Hoy estamos celebrando la. Edición 13 del evento Cuba Benin, en
Jovellanos la familia Baro conservando la tradición, a primera hora ceremonia a
la Ceiba sagrada y de ahí al cementerio a rendir tributo a nuestros ancestros,
para recibir la bendición."
Arará ~ de
Dahomey a Cuba: la familia Baró (Int. Kiley Acosta) 1/8/2016 YouTube: "A
snippet of Baró family history. Interpreter: Kiley Guyton Acosta, PhD.
Jovellanos, Cuba. December 24, 2015 Ojundegara is an internationally-acclaimed
cultural heritage group founded by the descendants of Esteban Baró, an African
child captured in Dahomey (Republic of Benin) and brought to Cuba as a slave
circa 1870. The Baró family is recognized for impeccably preserving the arará
traditions of Esteban’s ancestral homeland while ensuring that African
traditions stay alive and thrive in the diaspora. Ojundegara has been honored
with awards from UNESCO and Cuba’s Ministry of Culture for their cultural
heritage preservation efforts. Kiley Acosta, PhD, serves as the group’s
International Representative. Contact: kileyacosta@ConnectARTE.com * Español *
Un pequeño fragmento de la historia de la familia Baró. Interprete: Kiley Guyton
Acosta, PhD. Jovellanos, Cuba. 24 diciembre, 2015."
Legados Arará – Parte I 8/18/2013 Fratermidad Ifa: "En Matanzas, provincia
cubana donde se fundaron los primeros cabildos Arara, le llaman Asoyi, y en
Jovellanos, el asiento integrado por los Baró, le llaman Alua y Ojundegara."
Los Araras en Cuba (3) 2/13/2013 Raíces Cubanas: "En Jovellanos, tanto en
casa de los Baró como en casa de Marcos Zulueta se le nombra Hebioso Ana Má."
PRINCIPLE
OJUN DEGARA 2/7/2010 YouTube: "PERHAPS THE MOST RESPECTED GROUP IN CUBA
THAT IS PART OF A TRADITION THAT DATES BACK THOUSAND OF YEARS. THE ARE THE
PROTECTORS OF THIS TRADITION. THIS IS PERHAPS THE ONLY AVAILABLE VIDEO OF THIS
GROUP WHICH STILL RESIDE IN JOVELLANOS, CUBA. THEIR DRUMS, DANCES ALL REFLECT
THIS REMARKABLE TRADITION WHICH TRACES IT BACK TO DAHOMEY."
Armando Zulueta, Founder of the Babalú-Ayé Lucumí 12/7/2009 Baba Who?
Babalú!: "In 1932 when Armando Zulueta was nine, he began to pass Babalú-Ayé.
Again and again the oricha would take his body in possession, and so one day the
African-born Ña Octavia Zulueta initiated him into the mysteries of Babalú-Ayé.
Known as Jundesi in the religion, Ña Octavia said she was Arará-Dajomé, meaning
her ancestors came from Dahomey in West Africa."
Lázaro Ros 3/16/2005 The Guardian: "The singer Lázaro Ros, who has died of
cancer aged 79, was a leading figure in Afro-Cuban culture. A modest and
friendly man, he strove to raise awareness of the rich legacy of African slaves
taken to Cuba. He performed the music of the Lucumí culture, which also includes
religion and dance, of the Yoruba people from modern-day Nigeria, and the music
of the Arará culture of the Dahomeyan people from modern-day Benin. On one
estimate, 70% of Cubans practise an African religion, the main one being
Santería, the cult of saints, in which deities from the homeland are worshipped
through Catholic equivalents. From an early age, Ros taught himself the chants
arising from the practice of this religion in the Lucumí and Arará cultures: he
possessed an extraordinary voice, capable of hitting both high and low notes."
Festival Cultural Africano en Expocuba 5/25/2002 Cultura, Cuba: "La jornada
inaugural contó, además, con el lanzamiento del Poema “El África que observo con
mis dedos” del señor Antonio Gonçalves, Agregado Cultural de Angola, un
espectáculo de acción plástica donde se integraron el grupo ISADANZA, Tropatrapo
y el grupo Obba Areanle; un espectáculo musical a cargo del grupo Batanga Sonoc,
y, concluyó la jornada, el grupo folkórico Ojun Degara [un grupo Arara fundado
por la familia Baró] de Jovellanos, Matanzas, quien no sólo hizo bailar a los
presentes si no que atrajo a numerosas personas que se encontraban en otras
áreas del recinto ferial."
Matanzas, `the Athens of Cuba,' is worth the long trip 12/13/2001 Boston
Herald: "But in the late afternoon we take an excursion to Jovellanos, a town
hard hit in November by Michelle, the most damaging hurricane to reach Cuba in
half a century. Here we give away what medical supplies, toiletry items and
clothes we could bring in our luggage from the United States. Jovellanos also is
a hotbed of Afro-Cuban music played by descendents of the Arara tribe of Benin,
Africa. On the front porch of their home, four generations of the Baro family
sing, dance and drum for us and a large crowd of delighted neighbors. This
folkloric performance starts with a powerful chant from the family's matriarch,
an old woman whose father, we are told, had been brought to Cuba at age 11 as a
slave. The dancers are dressed as orishas,the Santeria gods. We have met these
orishas so often in the past week, they now seem - as they must to Cubans - like
old friends."
Ojun Degara
La familia Baró - The Baró Family: Arará in Jovellanos, Matanzas
Benin, Dahomey,
Cuba, Brazil, the US, Haiti and Vodoun
Known in Cuba as Arara and in Haiti as Rada, people from the old Dahomey
(Abomey) maintain their ancient culture to this day. The government
of Benin, which includes the old Dahomey, has long been developing a
tourism that is respectful of the old cultures. Currently under
development is a tourist hub with the following projects at over Euro 221
million:
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