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  • They visited several of their mexican workers and families (in Yanga and Cuitláhuac near Orizaba and Cordoba) while they were here, making it a culturally enriching experience for all involved.

    Veracruz web page 2005

  • "Yanga" who ruled a village in the mountainous area near Xalapa, Veracruz.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows aniome 2009

  • The Spring 2006 issue, vol 29, #2, pp 397-543, has a series of articles under the general heading of "Africa in Mexico", including transcriptions of fascinating interviews with such characters as Rodolfo Figueroa Martinez, who relates the history of how several local towns, including San Lorenzo de los Negros (now Yanga) were founded by blacks, and of how a black identity gradually emerged.

    Did You Know? Blacks outnumbered Spaniards until after 1810 2008

  • The Spring 2006 issue, vol 29, #2, pp 397-543, has a series of articles under the general heading of "Africa in Mexico", including transcriptions of fascinating interviews with such characters as Rodolfo Figueroa Martinez, who relates the history of how several local towns, including San Lorenzo de los Negros (now Yanga) were founded by blacks, and of how a black identity gradually emerged.

    Did You Know? Blacks outnumbered Spaniards until after 1810 2008

  • The Spring 2006 issue, vol 29, #2, pp 397-543, has a series of articles under the general heading of "Africa in Mexico", including transcriptions of fascinating interviews with such characters as Rodolfo Figueroa Martinez, who relates the history of how several local towns, including San Lorenzo de los Negros (now Yanga) were founded by blacks, and of how a black identity gradually emerged.

    Did You Know? Blacks outnumbered Spaniards until after 1810 2008

  • The two main female singers -- White playing Fela's mother, who struck the theater silent with her rendition of "Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am" as well as a new song, "Rain," and Sandra (Saycon Sengbloh) countering Fela on "Water No Get Enemy" -- were endearing and intimate, and Ismael Kouyate's treatment of traditional African melodies was heartbreaking.

    Derek Beres: Why Kanye West Could Never Be Fela Kuti 2009

  • "Without safe, regular access their fields in the coming weeks, many in the regroupment camps will have next to no sources of food between now and December," says Yanga, whose agency is providing seeds, tools and food rations to more than 60,000 relocated families.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The center's former director Demosthenes Yanga Lalisan, 45, and former associate director Richard Alan Hicks, 39, were accused of committing the crimes between 2003 through July 2011.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Before kick-off, the Simba players were seen scattering a strange grey powder around their goalmouth, while the rival Yanga squad urinated in formation along the halfway line.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Tanzania soccer giants, Young Africans (Yanga) and Simba SC meet today in a pride-restoration league match at the National Stadium.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

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