Independent Sri Lankan think tank on poverty and development

CEPA FILM FORUM PRESENTS: Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrant

04 Jan 2016 This film explores the cultural memories of the largest Afro-Sri Lankan community. Dances and songs (in creolised Portuguese, a language of trade and commerce for 350 years in Sri Lanka) connect the Afro-Sri Lankans to Africa, their erstwhile homeland. The vast majority of Afro-Asians were pushed to the margins by colonialism and […]