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In 1997 I began a series of travel teaching
trips on projects of cultural ecology and community empowerment designed
and sponsored by the Bahá’í International Community.
This gave me the wonderful opportunity to give back something of what
I had been given with so much love and wisdom in Cuba more than thirty
years ago by descendants of African slaves, to the youth of these same
cultures in West Africa and the Circumcaribbean, adding to it the contemporary
spirituality and new global vision of the Bahá’í Faith.
As the liner notes of our new CD Talisman state: “Millero Congo
wants to express our deepest thanks to our friends in the villages of
Northern Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Venezuela
and Brazil for having preserved and shared with us their African sacred
drumming traditions, their dignity, loving hearts, easy smiles and unshakeable
faith in the oneness of the human family, despite 500 years of slavery,
rejection and discrimination.”
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