LankaWeb – Funeral of Sir Garfield Sobers showed the cultural erasure of Black Africa at a Black Man’s funeral in Barbados. A sad spectacle.

Senaka Weeraratna The funeral of Sir Garfield Sobers deserved also a Black African cultural send off. Blacks ( Garfield Sobers was not white) should move away from Eurocentric, colonial-era military and Western religious traditions. Incorporating explicit African drumming, rituals, or folklore would better honor the ancestral roots of the Afro-Barbadians and celebrate a figure who […]