Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

by Ivor L. Miller and Bassey E. Bassey

In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called kp , or "leopard," which was the highest indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617033197
• ISBN13: 9781617033193
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"