Amiri Baraka ‘Blues People’ Then And Now At Express Newark

“Look at (Adama Delphine Fawundu), she has this diasporic lens, you're in Sierra Leone, and you're in Ghana, and they're keeping this Griot musical tradition of speaking truth to power alive,” Tillet continued. “(Adebunmi Gbadebo), she's going back to the plantation that her family is from in South Carolina, True Blue Plantation, and she's literally having her ancestors images in her textiles and thinking about slavery, thinking about enslaved peoples as the original Blues People.”