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She began her career at the pioneer West Indian World in London. In , she launched Euromight, www. She heads the journalism program at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington. Abdulrazak Gurnah is a fiction writer and academic. Although a permanent resident in the UK, he does not feel comfortable with the label of British and considers himself as a postcolonial cosmopolitan who has never abandoned his sentimental ties with his native land. Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in the island Zanzibar where he received a British education. While many years later this experience would give the author a valuable insight into the discourses of imperialism, the young Gurnah felt that his colonial education came into conflict with other autochthonous knowledges such as his Koranic schooling, or the prevailing oral tradition.
As a teenager, he witnessed the Zanzibari uprising and the subsequent installing of a Marxist revolutionary regime, and this historical event would mark him for the rest of his life. He has never returned to live in Zanzibar. Marginality and the tryst between self-image and how society constructs stereotypical images of the other are his primary concerns. The young Gurnah wrote about his sense of being alien from a position of weakness and, four decades later, this sense of being an outsider has not left him.
This prevailing sense of estrangement finds its way into the lives of many of his protagonists who are predominately male and lead half-lives; with one foot in the diasporic present and the other foot in the past. It is perhaps for this reason that the author displays a penchant towards poetic pessimism, which primarily focuses upon how vulnerable mankind is.
For Gurnah, writing is also about resistance against dominant discourses; it is a space where his early intuitions about his own difference and the nature of imperialism could mature into a coherent literary discourse. In his writing, Gurnah makes much use of juxtapositions as a means of creating dynamism; harshness, self-contempt register and sentimental optimism are conflicting narratives he uses to create paradox. The action takes place in an East African coastal city after emancipation from colonial rule and, like Gurnah, its narrator speaks about the restrictions and sense of frustration he suffers within the postcolony.
African kleptocracy is also denounced in the novel when the protagonist visits his uncle in Nairobi. The book employs the trope of the wandering self through the first-person narrative of Hassan who traverses the conflicting emotions of expectation and loss when he abandons his home. On a conceptual level, the narrative examines how slippery the act of recollection can be; the narrator represses, distorts and selects memories so as to construct an identity that may appear coherent yet is not altogether factual.
A victim of stereotyping, he develops a self-consciousness that borders upon the paranoiac. While Daud does not vocalise his psychomachia, the Liberian Karta, on the contrary, reaffirms the validity of his African identity by denouncing of the Atlantic slave trade, or reclaiming icons of white culture such as Pushkin, Saint Augustine, or Alexandre Dumas, for black culture The novel arc looks at the motif of redemption through Catherine who poses him the question: Are you something special?
By challenging his hyper-sensitivity, she questions the self-fulfilling prophecies of assigned roles. Dottie explores similar themes of alienation through the character of Dottie Badoara Fatma Balfour, a woman of mixed origin who is marginalised from society. Set in the politically racially fraught late s, Gurnah channels his own sense of deracination into the narrative and examines how a person like Dottie is doubly stigmatised by race and gender. It is set in the period in German East Africa, and it looks at Tanganyikan colonial society at a moment of its disintegration.
The impulse behind writing Paradise was to challenge the Manichean discourses constructed by colonialism around the issue of ending Arab slavery, the falsification of history, and the crusade against Islam. The central part of the Paradise deals with a trading expedition into the heartland of Tanganyika, and this epic journey commences from the town of Kawa which lies upon the Tanganyika railway. It is from this strategic trading post that the Arab-Swahili elite freight raw materials and other goods procured from interior to the coast.
No trade is conducted, the party is attacked, many are killed and Yusuf escapes with his life. Arrival to the colonial metropolis, however, tempers this admiration. For Gurnah, writing is a way of remembering, and the obsession with the abandoned homeland fuels the need to narrate and recreate it. Rashid is at first dismayed at how English people perceive him. His image of self becomes disturbed by the hostile looks he receives and he must then go through a process of reconstructing his own previous relationship with the English coloniser in Zanzibar and how this was founded on many carefully constructed fallacies: He finds asylum in the UK, becomes a school teacher, and marries an English woman.
However, below this surface of stability we find a much more fragile scenario where the unnamed narrator must fabricate details of his own past so that he can become palatable to his host family. This sanitising of his family history through the act of fictionalising is in stark juxtaposition with the fact that he has severed all links with his family and that they know nothing about his English bride.
The protagonist thus finds himself in the precarious situation of having both to attend to the demands of colonial nostalgia of his political family on one hand, and silence the fact that he has married a white woman on the other. He sustains this half life through fabrication, a seemingly innocent pursuit that is shattered upon a return visit to Zanzibar where he finds the family home in decay and his old friends now complicit in a suppressive regime of kleptocratic governance.
This and other revealed truths such as the real circumstances under which his mother was given to his father, wake him up from his self-delusionary narratives spun in exile. However, on his return to the UK he finds his wife has left him, and the comfort of his assimilated life is shattered. Alone and confused, he is cut adrift in his adopted island and left to swim amongst the incommensurable seas of cultural difference. The book looks at self-reproach and contradictory emotions that this produces through a narrative crossing back and forth from the past in Zanzibar to a present in the UK.
Yet memories of his homeland are integral to who he is, and being ill and bedridden wake him up to the fact that he can no longer camouflage the past through fable. Maryam, a foundling, also suffers from identity crises through her troublesome relationship with her foster parents, and similarly initiates a search into her past. Hanna is defensive about her ethnical background and struggles to block out the casual racists remarks of her upper-middle class white boyfriend, a theme Gurnah previously explored in Admiring Silence.
World Literature Today Member of the Wasafiri advisory board, the UK-based journal for international contemporary writing. A Narrative of un Belonging. The Transnational Journal of International Writing,46 The Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah. The African Diaspora in Finland consists of people with various countries of origin and diverse cultural backgrounds. Migrants from Africa and other Finns of African descent form a small and relatively recent but rapidly growing visible minority.
In a predominantly white society, they challenge the earlier imaginations of Finnishness and nationhood and their presence has influenced the social and cultural life of Finnish society in various ways. In their families there are already thousands of children born in Finland. Even though the African Diaspora in Finland mainly consists of first-generation immigrants, the rapid growth in the number of Black children of mixed parentage can also be seen in the street scene and in every school yard.
Until the s, Finland was a country of emigration rather than immigration. The share of people with a foreign background is still smaller than five percent of the population of approximately 5. Before becoming an independent state in , Finland was a Grand Duchy of Russia. Already during the 19th century, there were some Africans and Black people from the Americas, usually working as servants for wealthy Russians, in the few Finnish cities that now belong to Russia. The first Africans in what is now known as Finland were children who were brought to Finland by Finnish missionaries who had been working in Ovamboland in the northern part of the present Namibia.
As far as we know, the first African who was granted a Finnish passport was Rosa Emilia Clay later Lemberg , born in in the present Namibia as a child of a local woman and a white British man. She was still a child when she arrived in Finland with a Finnish missionary couple in They wanted her to study in Finland to become a teacher and then return to Africa to work at the Finnish missionary station. However, after finishing her studies she decided to stay in Finland. She made friends with many Finns, worked as a teacher in the City of Tampere and in some smaller towns, and she also led an active social life as a singer in local choirs.
Even though she loved her work as a teacher, and was liked and respected by many of her students and colleagues, she also faced prejudices and cruel racism. In , she moved to the US, like many Finns those days, and never returned to Finland. Only a small number of Africans and other Black people from the Diaspora were living in Finland between the s and the s.
Their experiences and reminiscences are documented in two radio documentaries and a three-part TV documentary, both of which were broadcast in by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE. During those years, the few Africans and Black people from the Americas in Finland were either students e. Unlike many other European countries, Finland remained largely unaffected by immigration flows until the s, when the number of immigrants started to grow rapidly.
Due to the civil war that started in Somalia in the early s, thousands of Somalis moved to Finland as asylum seekers. Some of them had been living in Russia, others flew from Somalia to Russia and soon found themselves to be asylum seekers in a country that they knew nothing about. Today, Somalis constitute the biggest group of Africans in Finland. There are over 10, Somali-speaking people and in their families there are thousands of Finnish-born children.
The number of people with a Somali background will grow also in the near future due to family reunifications and because the majority of Finnish Somalis are either children or young adults. Today there are Finns with a Somali background in all bigger cities in the country. When Somali communities in Finland started to increase, strong clan divisions continued to exist. Nevertheless, nowadays numerous Somali associations collaborate a lot locally as well as nationally to value and maintain the Somali culture, especially the Somali language, and to assist their countrymen and -women in their integration into a new society and culture.
In public schools all immigrant children are entitled to study their own language. Teaching of the mother tongue is organized by the cities and financially supported by the state. Many Somalis have found work as Somali-language teachers in public schools or as interpreters in public services. However, like many migrants from Africa, most Somalis are doing lower paid jobs, for example as bus drivers or as cleaners. The Somali population is highly diverse with regard to their educational background.
Especially among women there are many illiterate individuals, but even highly educated Somalis have found it very difficult to enter the labour market, not only due to their insufficient skills in the Finnish language but also because of racism and discrimination. Therefore, young educated Somalis are more likely than other Finns with an immigrant background to abandon Finland. Although 50 percent of the Somalis were still unemployed in , their position in the labour market is slowly improving. Africans in general have faced a lot of discrimination and racism in Finland.
Somalis constitute the largest group of Africans in Finland, and as Muslims and as refugees they especially have become victims of stereotyping and overt racism. Many Somali organizations have become active in speaking in public, trying to change the predominantly negative images and discourses concerning their presence in Finland.
Some individuals with a Somali background have tried to bring about change as active members of Finnish political parties. As Muslims, Somalis have contacts with other Muslims, for example with people from Northern Africa, but otherwise their contacts with other people of the African Diaspora in Finland are fewer, especially in the case of older people and the first generation.
Since the other African communities in Finland are considerably smaller, they are more likely to have contacts and collaboration also with each other despite their countries of origin. Immigration also from other African countries to Finland has grown markedly since There are communities of over 1, immigrants with a refugee background from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo former Zaire , and hundreds of other people with a refugee background have arrived also from many other Sub-Saharan African countries.
Some North African migrants, for example Algerians, also have a refugee background, but many of them have moved to Finland because they have married a Finn. This can be explained especially by tourism from Finland to Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. In Finnish families there are also hundreds of transnational adoptees from Ethiopia and South Africa, some of whom are already adults and parents themselves. The purpose of the Immigration Policy Programme Government Migration Policy Programme is to promote work-related immigration, to develop the immigrant integration system and to improve ethnic relations.
However, immigration policies as well as administrative practices regarding the implementation of legislation have always been relatively strict in Finland. Furthermore, in Finland, like in many other European countries, the current political environment has become more anti-immigrant and even hostile towards immigrants and racialized minorities. Openly anti-immigrant politicians who claim that the immigration and integration policies are too liberal have gained a lot of supporters in local and national elections in the s.
In public discussions, refugees are often categorized as unwanted immigrants. Therefore, especially Africans and their descendants have found it very difficult to have a voice and to create a feeling of belonging in Finnish society. Throughout the history of Finland various ethnic minorities, like the Finnish Roma and the Sami people, have faced racism, but as a topic of discussion racism has been avoided.
The fact that there are no established words in the Finnish language that people could use when referring to their identifications with the African Diaspora, or for any collective racialized identities, is only one manifestation of the absence of discussion concerning racialized relations in Finnish society.
The presence of Africans and other Black people in Finland has changed Finnish society dramatically: Racist discourses and discriminative practices have become a topic of discussion not only in the media and among some politicians, but also in schools and public services. In the case of first-generation immigrants, questions of racism are often turned into questions of cultural differences, but the second generation, as well as children of mixed parentage and transnational adoptees, can better speak for their rights as Finnish nationals.
Unlike the first-generation migrants from Africa and the other parts of the Diaspora, who are forced to pour their energy into learning a new language and surviving in a new society and culture, people born in Finland have more possibilities to talk back and fight against racism. Furthermore, first-generation migrants from Africa usually have strong social, cultural, economic and emotional links to their countries of origin, whereas for the second generation and for children of mixed parentage the international Black Diaspora is more likely to be an important source of identification.
Various manifestations of diasporic Africanness, strongly rooted in anti-racism struggles, can be found in youth subcultures among young Black Finns. Somalis alone have founded dozens of associations, and many of them have become active agents both in Finland and abroad. Across the country the Somali culture is presented by local Somali associations, and Somali Book Fairs are arranged in the biggest cities.
These events are often organized together with Finnish authorities and NGOs. The multi-local lives of Finnish Somali communities are also shaped by transnationalism. The literature produced in the Somali Diaspora is brought to Finland, and young people communicate with other young Europeans with a Somali background through their networks on the Internet. Various Finnish Somali associations and individuals have started development co-operation projects in Somalia, and they also have contributed to peace-building projects in the Horn of Africa.
In , when the presidential election was held in Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state in the northern region of Somalia, one of the candidates, Faisal Ali Warabe b. Ethiopians, Nigerians have also founded their own churches, mainly in Helsinki. Many communities, like refugees from Sudan, also have their local associations across the country.
African immigrant associations and churches help them to strengthen their own communities in Finland and to maintain their ties to their countries of origin. People from Finnish African communities meet each other and other Finns with an immigrant background also in local community centres. Until recently, studies on Finnish Africans have focused only on Somalis and their integration into Finnish society. The national network for researchers studying the African Diaspora in Finland and in Europe was founded in to promote research on the history and presence of Africans and their descendents in Finland.
New research projects have been launched, and in the network there are also young scholars with an African background. Africans and their descendants have become active agents also in the political life. In the s, many political parties have nominated Finnish Africans as candidates both in the municipal and national elections. There are Finnish Africans in many city councils; in , Jani Toivola b.
Literary contributions of the African Diaspora in Finland are still to come. Only a few people of African descent have written and published on their experiences in Finland. Most of their texts are based on interviews and published in what are called immigrant anthologies, usually edited by Finns with a majority background. The first autobiographic novel was written by Kenyan-born Joseph Owindi, who was the first African student at the University of Tampere in the s.
His experiences as a Black student in a Finland in the s and s are summed up in the title of his book Kato, kato nekru! In , a collection of his essays, Messages from Finland. The exiting experiences of a foreign student , were published in Finland in English. He has written and published widely on ethnic relations, onthology, power and cultural identification and alienation of the intellectuals in the Arab and Mediterranean societies, but his areas of expertise include also cultural and economic globalisation and knowledge economy.
Kirwa, well-known in Finland also for winning the , , and 1,metre runs in the same Finnish Championships in Athletics, has also written fairy tales for children, and nowadays he travels across the country visiting schools and day-care centres, reading African stories and telling about his childhood in Africa and about his life in Finland.
There are only few visual artists of African descent in Finland. The most famous of them is Sasha Huber , a Swiss-born artist of European and Haitian heritage, who has lived in Finland for many years. Of all the artists with an African background in Finland, especially African musicians have contributed to the exchange and cross-pollination of cultures. From the end of the s there has been quite a lot of African music on offer in Finland.
As a result of co-operation between Senegalese and Finnish musicians, many recognized musicians from Senegal moved to Finland. In , the Finnish Minister of Culture rewarded Galaxy with the Finland Prize, the highest governmental prize annually given in the field of art. After moving to Finland in he has played in various bands with both African and Finnish musicians. They have not only enriched the Finnish cultural life with their own performances of African music and dance and paved the way and created job opportunities for other African musicians, but also worked as teachers and trainers for both Finnish professionals and hundreds of other Finns inspired by their work.
Special Issue on African and other immigrant music in Finland. Government Migration Policy Programme Kulttuurintutkimus [Finnish Journal of Cultural Studies] All the autobiographical texts written by Africans and their descendents in Finland and published before , including short texts in anthologies, are listed in this article, on pp.
In McEachrane, Michael ed. Engaging Blackness in Northern Europe. The early twenty-first century marks the beginning of a substantial African Diaspora community in Ireland however individuals of African descent have been notably present in Dublin, Ireland and throughout the country at other periods. In addition to the more well-known presence of Olaudah Equiano, who toured Ireland in , eighteenth century documentation reveals an estimated Blacks living in Ireland, primarily in Dublin, at various times Hart The eighteenth century Black population mostly consisted of enslaved and free servants, seafarers, and entertainers Hart Allen, and Frederick Douglass, who passed through the nation to advance the cause of Black freedom in the Americas.
The twentieth century, a period of a newly independent Republic of Ireland after , mostly saw in-migration of Africans arriving to study at the Royal College of Surgeons and other Irish institutions. This small transient population, as a result of relationships between African men and Irish women, also produced children; many of whom were placed in orphanages.
Early data on work permit allocation between the years reflect the diversity of the African Diaspora community at the end of the twentieth century, with permits granted to individuals from twenty-five African and six Caribbean nations Dept. S'io fusse ciaolo G. La' dove fioriscono le magnoli Dura la vita dello scrittore. What plaintive sounds strike on my ear? It is worth noting that the two institutions of slavery, Russian and American, were abolished at about the same time — and respectively. I would love to see a sequel to this book, showing the two of them dating.
The children were often stigmatized in their communities and experienced race-based discrimination, as represented in the stories of Irish footballer, Paul McGrath, who discusses his navigation of anti-Black sentiments and a difficult quest for identity in his memoir, Back from the Brink McGrath , and the racism experienced as a youth by Irish rock star, Phil Lynott Putterford Overall, until the more recent in-migration of the early twentieth-first century, individuals of African descent in Ireland have been a rare presence and mostly considered in the contexts of charity and missionary work abroad.
The in-migration of the African Diaspora to Ireland is reflective of a changing Irish nation, as the formerly impoverished Republic of Ireland is historically known for its out-migration and global Irish Diaspora. As a result, Ireland became a destination for immigrants, which included Black migrants already present on the European continent including EU and European Economic Area nationals and individuals from continental Africa. While there were African migrants that arrived with work permits, student visas, business permissions, and travel visas, such modes of migration were mostly inaccessible for African nationals.
However, businesses did not aggressively recruit from African nations, except for South Africa which offered a potentially majority White workforce White Africans who desired to migrate to Ireland found their primary option in the realm of asylum seeking and, therefore, significant increases in the Black population occurred in the context of asylum procedures. Between and , there was an increase from an overall 39 new asylum applicants in to 11, applicants in ORAC The African Diaspora community is nationally, linguistically, ethnically, religiously, and socio-economically diverse.
Within each national origin, various regions and ethnic groups are also represented, such as the Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria. Early data on work permit allocation between the years reflect the diversity of the African Diaspora community at the end of the twentieth century, with permits granted to individuals from twenty-five African and six Caribbean nations Dept.
Even after the asylum-related Dispersal Scheme discussed below , Dublin still served as a locus of the African community because the north city centre areas of Parnell Street and Moore Street contained African shops, restaurants, beauty salons and other businesses that served the diverse community White ; White Additionally, Africans transplanted methods of worship practiced in the homeland to storefronts and church spaces in Dublin and eventually elsewhere in the nation, particularly in forms of Christian Pentecostalism prevalent in contemporary African nations Ugba The presence of the African Diaspora community was not efficiently documented until the Irish Census of , which included questions about ethnic and national background and racial self-identification for the first time in the Republic of Ireland.
In , 16, individuals noted their nationality as Nigerian and 16, individuals stated Nigeria as their place of birth Irish Census a. A total of 35, individuals noted an African nationality and 33, declared an African nation as their place of birth Irish Census a. At the EU-level, it is notable that the Dublin Regulation II [which replaced the Dublin Convention I and II ] is so named because the initial provision, now EU law, was written in Dublin, and fundamentally requires that individuals seek asylum in the first nation of arrival.
Individuals arriving from locations without direct flights to Ireland, such as Nigeria, must go through the UK or continental Europe before arriving in Ireland and should ostensibly be ineligible to have an asylum claim considered in the Irish state. The support for a constitutional amendment particularly resulted from a widely expressed, yet erroneous, perception that pregnant African women were arriving in Ireland to give birth in order to receive leave to remain due to parentage of an Irish child Lentin ; White The Dispersal Scheme began in and reflects an attempt to forestall the concentration of African immigrants in the Dublin city centre see Brady a.
Dundalk, Kilkenny, Waterford, Sligo , often in towns and villages that previously had very little to no Black presence. Asylum seekers do not have the right to work and must remain under the Direct Provision scheme until their status is determined either via refugee status, leave to remain, or a manifestly unfounded asylum application resulting in deportation. During times of a backlog in the asylum process particularly between and , which peaked in with 11, unresolved cases asylum seekers have been placed in an extended legal limbo Brady b; Irish Refugee Council ; INIS The policies have resulted in extreme isolation and, in prolonged cases, African descendent children growing up with parents who have never been permitted to work or cook a meal for the family.
The inability to obtain employment also stokes migrant participation in the underground economy. Deportations have a significant impact upon the African Diaspora community. There have been several high profile deportation cases, such as that of Olukunle Elukanlo, a nineteen year old deported to Lagos in his school uniform in , the experiences of Iyabo Nwanze and Elizabeth Odunsi, two Nigerian women living in Athlone, County Westmeath, who were deported in a nationwide roundup in , leaving three of their children behind, and from , the case of Pamela Izevbhekhai, a Nigerian businesswoman residing in Sligo, who feared her daughters would face female genital mutilation if deported see White ; White For example, out of a sub-group of African Diaspora immigrants, At the state level, the Equality Authority was established in and the Irish Institute for Human Rights, in , to address related violations, compile data and research solutions in an effort to enforce corresponding Irish Constitutional acts and EU directives.
In , the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland MRCI reported violations of United Nations Human Rights stipulations in the context of ethnic and migrant profiling — particularly of Blacks — crossing the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland and at police, immigration and security checkpoints throughout the Republic of Ireland, including train stations, bus depots, and airports MRCI Various media representations of the African Diaspora in Ireland emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century from within and outside of the community see White b; Other publications have included Africans Magazine, developed as a community resource in , Heritage, also founded in , and Xclusive, founded in , with the latter two directed towards middle-class African Diaspora communities and the broader Irish community and, among other areas, covering social news, popular culture, and political achievements.
Additionally, other media emerged, which included a website related to Africans Magazine entitled Africans. Several projects related to the African Diaspora community have emerged in the realm of theatre. While Phil Lynott, leader of the rock band Thin Lizzy, was a successful performer of African and Irish descent in the s and early s, a more global engagement with Blackness and Irishness emerged on the music scene at the top of the twenty-first century.
In , the band, De Jimbe, a multi-ethnic group that combined traditional African and Irish musical instruments and styles, performed at a St. In and , Samantha Mumba b. Simon Wells and, through various media discussions, represented a new face of Irishness. By , Laura Izibor b. The presence of both Mumba and, later, Izibor in the global music arena also underlined the presence of culturally Irish individuals who are racialized as Black and the solid reality of African Irish identities.
In refugees and asylum seekers were granted the right to vote in local elections. In Rotimi Adebari, a former asylum seeker originally from Nigeria, became the first Black mayor in Ireland when he was elected mayor of Portlaoise in Co. By the elections, Black candidates represented a generation of former asylum seekers who were now residents and Irish nationals, with fifteen men and women of African descent running in local elections across the nation.
The candidates, running with major political parties or as independents, notably included three Nigerian candidates competing in a County Council election in Mulhuddart, a Dublin suburb see Anny-Nzekwue The outcome was not successful for most of the Black candidates, with the exception of Rotimi Adebari who won seats on his Town and County Councils in The American president, who has both Kenyan and Irish ancestry, was embraced by Ireland. Numerous individuals of African descent in Ireland celebrated his visit, which was both an important moment amidst a country in economic crisis and a representation of the nation embracing an individual of African descent as one of their own, a circumstance that many Blacks in Ireland continue to anticipate for their own future.
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An International Journal 2. Modernity, Freedom and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris. Africans in Russia Further reading. The encounter between Africans and people of African ancestry and Russia was reflective of the ambivalence with which Russians viewed their place in the Eurocentric world during the Age of Imperialism.
Their own identity as a European nation has been often the subject of heated internal debates and a wide-spread suspicion on the part of other Europeans. Imperial Russia did not take part in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and never established colonies in Africa. The last European nation to emancipate its own serfs Russia had a small but vocal educated class, or intelligentsia , whose prominent representatives routinely condemned the depravity of American slavery.
After , the new Communist rulers of Soviet Russia continued to advocate racial tolerance and acceptance as essential elements of their Marxist ideology. Africans and African Russians residing in late Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia had to bear the brunt of Russian chauvinism, much of it born out of the society-wide disillusionment with Soviet ideals and values. Adopted by the tsar, who also served as his godfather, Hannibal entered Russian nobility and made an illustrious career in the Russian military, distinguishing himself as a talented engineer and reaching the rank of general-major.
Pushkin himself did not shy away from his African ancestry and proudly acknowledged it in verse and prose, celebrating the life of his famous progenitor in an unfinished biography Arap Petra Velikogo The Negro of Peter the Great. That a person of African descent could be embraced by Russians as the most important cultural symbol underscores how differently they viewed race from the majority of other 19 th century Europeans.
While few black people ever visited Imperial Russia, those who did reported encountering generally benign attitudes, in stark contrast to the racism prevalent elsewhere in Europe and North America. One such traveler, an African-American woman Nancy Prince, spent more than a decade at the Russian imperial court in St. Petersburg during the early decades of the s. Her memoir contains a perceptive analysis of the early 19 th century Russian society, which she deemed welcoming to blacks. Black American tragedian Ira Aldridge found fame on the Russian stage.
A close friend of the great Ukrainian bard Taras Schevchenko, Aldridge toured Russia extensively and attained a cult-like status with the theater goers in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and in the provinces. His popularity with the Russian public had little to do with his race and a lot with his acting talents. It is worth noting that the two institutions of slavery, Russian and American, were abolished at about the same time — and respectively.
Not surprisingly, a trickle of African-American adventurers, performers, musicians, and entrepreneurs began to reach Russia towards the end of the 19 th century. With the enormous Eurasian landmass open to its imperialist expansion Russia took no part in the European Scramble for Africa during the last two decades of the 19 th century.
While not immune to the standard Victorian images of Africa that depicted the continent and its people as savage and in need of civilization, Russians felt no obvious need to civilize Africans. Towards the end of the 19 th century the country experienced a period of close and intensely emotional contacts with Christian Ethiopia, an independent African nation that many Russians considered fraternal on account of its Orthodox faith.
Russian military advisors, medics, and volunteers were reportedly in the ranks of the Ethiopian army of Menelik II which inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Italian colonial army at Adwa in Subsequently, Russians founded a hospital in Addis Ababa that for decades to come would become a fixture of Ethiopian capital. An ethnographic expedition to the Abkhasian coast of the Black Sea had come across several villages whose residents had black skin and distinctly African features. Their numbers were small but their very presence on the territory of Russian Empire connected it to the general history of global exchanges.
In the aftermath of the Great October Socialist Revolution of , the new Bolshevik regime sought to forge a new Soviet identity, rooted in the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. Since class distinctions were the only meaningful differences between humans recognized by the Communists, the new Soviet rulers decried racism as a harmful vestige of capitalism — the system they had set out to destroy.
From that point on until the very end of the Soviet Union the Soviets, at least in their official pronouncements, would continue to make use of the rhetoric of antiracism and anticolonialism. Needless to say, for African-Americans living under the Jim Crow laws and the fear of arbitrary lynchings as well as for the African subjects of European colonial administrations the Soviet Union represented a refreshing alternative to the routine of racial humiliation and colonial domination.
Among those enchanted with the promise of the Soviet Union were some of the most prominent African-American intellectuals and cultural figures of the day. Besides these celebrities there were numerous lesser known individuals who came to the Soviet Union in pursuit of their colorblind dream but also in search of employment opportunities and the opportunities to contribute to the new socialist experiment in Russia. In , for example, a group of agricultural engineers, most of them the graduates of the historically black Tuskegee University and Hampton Institute, arrived in Soviet Central Asia to help it develop new cotton production techniques.
Oliver Golden, the leader of the group, and George Tynes, one of the experts, would permanently settle in the USSR, and in doing so lay the foundations for a small but culturally and politically significant black diaspora in the Soviet Union. The romance between black radicals and Soviet Russia began to wither away towards the end of the s as the Soviet Union proceeded to assert itself more as a nation-state than a revolutionary force in world affairs. In , it established diplomatic relations with the United States and subsequently toned down its antiracist propaganda. The Soviets lost some of their earlier clout among black sympathizers when it came to the surface that they had been secretly supplying Italian troops during their invasion of Ethiopia.
George Padmore, a prominent Caribbean communist, broke with the Soviets over what he saw as their heavy-handed approach to the issue of race. Padmore would eventually trade his communist convictions for pan-Africanist beliefs.
In the aftermath of the Second World War much of the former colonial world, including Africa, gained independence from the former colonial masters. The process of decolonization coincided with the rise of the Cold War — the historical circumstance that left an indelible mark on the relations betweens the Soviet Union and the newly independent nations of Africa. Here's to thee my boy duet for TB My lovesick mind what transport Poor children three, as sung by Mr. All rights reserved Page 6 of A bonny Northern lad Debtor's welcome to their brother: Welcome brother debtor The beauty of Polworth Green: Tho' beauty like the fose Moore in armour, to fight the dragon: Oh I wou'd not for any The blaze of charm: The deep'ning shadows were withdrawn Collin's farewell to Grisy: When Jockey first I saw Moore fighting with ye dragon: Oh hoh Master Moore As the snow in vallies lying Dear Chloe attend to th'advice of a friend Who to win a woman's favour What sullen fear with obl.
What care I for affairs of state with instr. Cupid god of pleasing anguish Fill ye bowl with flowing measure no flute part Come take your glass ye Northern lass My time o ye Muses was happily spent The smiling morn, the breathing spring Whilst wanton cupids round me fly The beau sung by Mr. How brimful of nothings with obl. Glide swiftly on thou silver stream Frown not my dear, nor be severe Be merry and wise: Let wine to social joys give birth Gold a receipt for love: Thy op'ning bloom and softend charms The young lovers first address: Charmer permit me to make Furies tear me quickly In vain you tell your parting lover Advice to the unwary: The wounded deer flyes swift away When e'er my Cloe I begin thy breast like mine to move The taste, a dialogue: O my pretty Punchinello instr.
How hard is ye fortune of all womankind Without affectation gay with obl. The present state of Little Britain: Britons where is your great Phillis the lovely, turn to your swain Whilst Strephon on fair Chloe hung Tis thee I love Love for love is a charming trade SB; no fl. In these groves, with content and tranquility If the glasses they are empty The ballad singer's summons to her lover: Sweetets of the nightly choir While in a bow'r with beauty blest Cupid god of gay desires Blow on ye winds All rights reserved Page 7 of The topers sentence on a sneaker: To ye god of wine my song What beauties does Flora disclose?
In praise of burgundy: Hail burgundy thou juice divine The lass of Patties mill so bony blith and gay Twas on a rivers verdant side with "Cary's tune" As I saw fair Clora Why will Florella when I gaze my ravish'd eyes Too lovely fair one "within ye compass of ye fl" To arms to arms from "Bonduca", Z TB; "within ye compass of ye flute" Happy's the love that meets return Birnstiel, Apart from many works for clavier, flute and violin see corresponding sections this collection contains the following vocal pieces: Bruder, Bruder, halte mich!
Wenn ich zu dir in meinen Aengsten fliehe ps. Gott ist mein Hirt! Ente, wahres Bild von mir voice, bc C. Wie wunderlich, mein guter Mann voice, bc Lob des Weins: Mein Anwald zeigt mir die Libellne voice, clavier Die seltene Liebe: Das Schicksal, dass uns treffen soll voice, clavier Mischmasch: All rights reserved Page 8 of Es traf auf seinem Gange voice, clavier Ode: Mit Lauretten, seiner Freude voice, clavier Musette: An dieser schattenreichen Linde voice, clavier Ode: Magister Duns, der Schulen Licht voice, clavier Ode: Hier niemm die sanfte Leyer wieder voice, clav.
Die Regeln, in der Kunst voice, clav. Ihr Freunde trinkt, die Zeit entflieht voice, bc J.
Der Nachbarinn Climene voice, clavier Edition: The works relevant to this section are: Amor ist mien Lieb! Schmidt high voice, clavier Er Jesus starb: Lasst uns den Priester Orgon fragen high voice, bc Canzonetta: Chi vuol travar la pace Landi 2 high voices, bc J.
All rights reserved Page 9 of Donne, se avete in sen pietate high voice, bc J. Krispin geht stets berauscht zu bette high voice, bc Schlaf Kind, so lange noch dein Morgen erlaubt high voice, bc O weh! Horace high voice, bc F. The duke de Bouillon was head of this loge; the statutes of this order "se composaient de galanteries auxquelles nul ne pouvait manquer".
Mon fils il me faut sans tomber 2. Chanson par Madame de L All rights reserved Page 10 of Marazzoli, all others anonymous: Era la notte e'l sonno 2. Son giunto a morte alfin m'uccide 3. Chi prima pugnando comparve SB and bc 4. Voi del sole che piangete la caduta 9. Languia Filen trafitto doleasi Armati pur d'orgoglio contro di me Quietatevi pensieri non mi affliggete Sovra non verde riva al dolce Quante stelle vaghe e belle SA and bc Chi fugge d'amor gli affanni SS and bc A' chi misero more in man State ardendo in vivo foco SS and bc Edition: All rights reserved Page 11 of Moylan only songs with melodies listed 1.
Song of the volunteers: Favourite march of the old Irish volunteers 3. Patrick he is Ireland's Saint 4.
In questo romanzo venuto alla luce nel , l'autore Edward W. Thomson mette in scena uno spaccato di vita della famiglia Mc Grath: la signora Mc Grath. Ovetari Chapel, Chiesa degli Eremitani, Padua, Italy 21 3 Allesandro .. At issue here are the different values of signs according to the ad amplificare qualche argumentazione; e soglio, massime la notte, che non è sì brutta figura di femmina che non trovi qualche amante, se già non fussi mostruosa.
The Saratoga hornpipe no text 8. Give ear, ye British hearts of gold Hibernia's sons, the patriot band About seven years since we were lazy and slavish Man is free by nature: Why vainly do we waste our time The downfall of Paris no text The fourteenth of July, in Paris town The rights of man no music The rights of man: I speak in candour, one nigth in slumber Plant, plant the tree: See, Erin's sons, yon rising beam Twas in the year of Ninety-three Bonaparte's grand march on text Madame Bonaparte no text The exiles Irishman's lamentation: Green were the fields The shan van vocht: O the French are on the sea I'll sing you a song of a cock and a bull The wearing of the green: I met with Napper Tandy O Paddy dear, and did you hear Napper Tandy no text Arrah, Paddy my joy Arrah Paddies, my hearties The boys of Mullaghbawn: On ad Monday morning early Come all you wild young gentlemen The rambler from Clare: The first of my journeys that ever was known The 18th day of May, my boys, recorded it will be What plaintive sounds strike on my ear?
Come tell us the name of the rebelly crew In the year of Our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety eight Captain Doorley and the Boyne: Come all you true born Irishmen At Boolavogue, as the sun was setting The cow that ate the piper: In the year ninety-eight, when our troubles The groves of Blackpool: Now de war, dearest Nancy A '98 March no text The wind that shakes the barley: I sat within the valley green Come all you warriors and renowned nobles All rights reserved Page 12 of In Collon I was taken: In Collon I was taken, being on the sixth of June The lamentations of Patrick Brady: Ye true born heroes I hope you will The boys of Wexford: In comes the captain's daughter The boys of Wexford Poor Catholics of Erin give ear The heroes of Wexford Twas in ninety-six as the moon did fix We soldiers of Erin, wo proud of the name Up A vernal ode: An 'croppy lie down': The bold Belfast shoemaker: Give me the man whose dauntless soul The pikeman no text My name is George Campbell, at the age of eighteen Corney is coming no text Farewell to Bargy's lovely groves The croppies' march no text The battle of Kilcumney: On Moniseed of a summer's morning It was early all in the spring Good men and true in this house who dwell The croppy boy no text The death of Staker Wallis no text The kinnegad slashers no text Weep the great Departed The social thistle and the sham-rock It was on the Belfast mountains An Ulster man I am prou to be Come all you Belfast people Rouse Hibernians, from your slumbers!
The men of the West: When you honour in song and in story While every side a vigil keep On an angry August morning The rising of the moon: Tell me Sean O'Farrell It was in Kilkenny the great row was making The grave of Wolfe Tone: In Bodenstown Churchyard Come tender-hearted Christians all Billy Byrne of Ballymanus: Come all ye brave united men The exile of Erin: There came to the beach a poor exile Too long I've been weeping where hedges are dripping One evening late I chanced to stray Oliver's advice an Orange ballad: The nigh is gathering The memory of the dead: Who fears to speak of ninety-eight?
All rights reserved Page 13 of Have you heard of Michael Dwyer Protestant, dissenter, catholic Twenty men from Dublin town Dialogue between Orange and Croppy: Says Orange to The repeal of the union no text The union is welcome to Ireland no text No rising column marks the spot The struggle is over My Emmet is no more: Despair in her wild eye, a daughter of Erin She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps When he who adores thee has left but the name Farewell love, I'm now going to leave you The man from god-knows-where: Into our townlan' One time when walking down a lane By memory inspired The old grey mare: Good fellows all, that's straight and tall Here's a chorus - Irish slaves The banks of the Nile: Hark, the drums are beating As I walked out one evening in the springtime of the year Nelson's victory no text Oh the moment was sad when my love and I parted Napoleon crossing the Rhine no text Oh, alone to the banks The bantry girls' lament: Oh, who will plough the field now Ye broken-hearted heroes that love your liberty McGrath", the sergeant said Whiskey you're the devil: O now, brave boys, we're on for marching The bonny light horseman: When Bonaparte he commanded his troops The Salamanca reel no text The bonny bunch of roses: By the margin of the ocean Bonaparte's retreat no text I am Napoleon Bonaparte the conqueror of nations Napoleon Bonaparte's farewell to Paris: Farewell you splendid citadel The mantle so green: As I went out walking one morning in June The plains of Waterloo: As I roved out on a fine summer's morning Dinner party con cadavere.
Discorso all'ufficio oggetti s La divina commedia - paradiso. Dizionario del successo e dell Dona flor e i suoi due mariti. La donna del tenente francese. La doppia morte di Quincas l'a La' dove fioriscono le magnoli Due anime e un lungo viaggio. Dura la vita dello scrittore.
E non disse nemmeno una parola. La gioia della c Esperimenti di felicita' provv L'Europa di Benedetto nella cr La fabbrica dei soldi - ostagg Il fantasma di Canterville e a I fantasmi di mosca - 1. Favole testo greco a fronte. Follia che viene dalle Ninfe. Frasi e incisi di un canto sal La fratellanza della sacra sin Gabriella garofano e cannella.
I giorni felici di california Giorno per giorno, l'avventura Il giuoco delle perle di vetro. Hunger games 3 - Il canto dell L'impero di Gengis Khan.