Majigeen is a musical- drama of historical fiction based on the life of Anta Majigeen Njaay, a young teenager torn from her home in Senegal in the early 19th Century and sold into slavery in Spanish owned Florida. Her story is told through the fictitious character of Mamadou Seck, griot to the Njaay family and narrator of this tale. He recounts for us Anta's fascinating life from her baptism as a young Muslim, to her capture and shackled departure from Senegal through the Doorway of No Return, to her marriage to plantation and slave owner Zephania Kingsley and through her adult years as a mother, plantation owner, slave owner, activist and grandmother. We meet along the way African kings and warriors, her family members, Zephania's other wives as well as Zephania himself. We hear through each character's song her own unique perspective on such things as polygamy, motherhood, slavery, marriage, Christianity & Islam, betrayal, greed and love and loss. We see, through the wisdom and humor of the omniscient griot, many similarities between the issues that are on the social forefront today and those thousands of miles away 200 years ago. Issues that remind us all of our membership in the same race, the human race. |
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