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Article: Dancing a new face contemporary Sala Mpasu masquerades.(photo essay)
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- African Arts
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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The Sala Mpasu are a people who have repeatedly reinvented themselves during the twentieth century. The last of the peoples in the Congo (1) to be conquered by the Belgians, the Sala Mpasu had succeeded in keeping outsiders away by combining outstanding fighting skill with a reputation of being savage "cannibals. "(2) This carefully developed reputation backfired in the second half of the twentieth century, acting as a barrier to the aspirations of ambitious Sala Mpasu who attempted to break into social, political, and economic positions in a wider arena than the small Sala Mpasu area itself.
The Sala Mpasu reputation, made concrete by their men's society and ...
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