Ngombulu Ya Sangui Ya Mina Bantu COMES TO NEVIS FOR THE 2ND LECTURE OF THE UNESCO SLAVE ROUTE PROJECT

On Wednesday November 30th 2011 at 7:00pm join the "UNESCO St. Kitts and Nevis Scientific Slave Route Committee" in Nevis at the Red Cross Building to participate in the Lecture delivered by invited guest Ngombulu Ya Sangui Ya Mina Bantu LASCONY.


WRITER, HISTORIOGRAPHER, RESEARCHER, POET, DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKER AND JAZZ BAND LEADER

N.Y.S.Y.M.B: Ngombulu Ya Sangui Ya Mina Bantu LASCONY was born in Brazzaville (Congo) and grew up in Paris (France). He is a man that multiplies multidisciplinary (writer, historiographer, researcher, poet, documentary film maker and jazz band leader) activities to defend a cause that he considers essential. The subjects of his documentaries betray his passion and commitment. Passion for History, jazz and Negro art. He has studied the history of Africa with the djelys (griots) in the greatest initiatory centres of the hinterland, music at the Conservatoire municipal de musique et de danse de Lagny sur Marne and cinema at the Ecole préparatoire aux metiers du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel. He knows and has played with many of the great jazz musicians of our time, and often spends his time in all the legendary places where this music is produced.

It was after reading "The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey" that he finally committed to the History and Negro Art. He has travelled 23 countries in Africa, 18 from Europe, 11 in the Caribbean and America, camera in hand. He made more than half of his journeys with his wife and children to prepare for the rotation. His aim is to show the other side of Africa, the laughing, singing, creating, and not one that reaches out to receive alms. The books can be read and understood by those who are literate, while images can be more easily interpreted, even by the illiterate. Apart from his innumerable adventures, NYSYMB LASCONY visited more than one hundred museums throughout the world, has attended over 300 concerts (especially jazz, blues and reggae), and visited Africa in 419 villages, 112 cities (all continents together). He toured Africa and Europe, performing in various jazz festivals as a poet.

Since then, nearly two decades, the activist is useful lectures on jazz and on various historical subjects relating to the Negro question. He has performed as a lecturer in many schools, universities, Institutes, cultural centres, bookstores, libraries and museums :...

HIS AIM IS TO POPULARIZE KNOWLEDGE, BECAUSE IGNORANCE IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF INCOMPREHENSION BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS. "A man who travelled a lot does not carry prejudices in his luggage", he concludes. When the history books and the foreign media caricature Africa is a duty for one (or) who is born to correct this false image. That is why he has just completed two series of documentary titled "Portrait of Engineering African" and "Africa: the hidden beauty", a long journey that takes us from the coast of the Zambezi River to Sahel. Monumental works for those who can not move. He combines poetry with jazz, mixtures know orchestrated by a man who knows how to absorb profound texts.

NYSYMB LASCONY may claim to have made more than 150 presentations and lectures on the histories of old Africa’s empires, Jazz and Pan-Africanism which he is one of the best (in the francophone zone). His motto is: FAITH, DETERMINATION, and COURAGE. These three elements are, according to him essential to the course. He refuses to be locked in a category, although the majority of those who met him described as the "GLOBE TROTTER FAMILY".

When people ask him " who finance his journeys?", he always replies with a smile to the question, that at he (or she) who knows the price of freedom must have the resources, simply by working. Life is a choice. There are those who prefer to collect cars, jewels and those who prefer to have a library full of books, although all three options are not mutually exclusive. That hunger justifies the means. NYSYMB LASCONY chose the second option, that of his sacrifice material comforts to live fully his passions".


Ref: Biography http://www.myspace.com/nysymb_lascony


Videos Links:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlhu12_une-elegie-pour-les-afrodescendants_travel#from=embed

http://www.dailymotion.com/NGOMBULU#videoId=xisey1

http://www.dailymotion.com/NGOMBULU#videoId=xis4yt

http://www.dailymotion.com/NGOMBULU#videoId=xe4tjp

http://www.dailymotion.com/NGOMBULU#videoId=xfqr1x

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdeqwc_daily2_webcam


For more information about attending the lecture contact Chesley Davis at 
NEVIS CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
                      Rawlins Business Complex
                      Stoney Grove, Nevis. W.I.

                      Tel: (869) 469-5521 Ext: 2142/2283
                      Tel/Fax: (869) 469-1889
                      Email: ncdfoundation08@hotmail.com

Press Release(28/11/11)

"N.Y.S.Y.M.B. Lascony"

UNESCO  National Scientific Slave Route Project

St. Kitts Department of Culture

Research & Documentation Unit

Email: stkittsculture@gmail.com

Tel" (869) 467-1396