Feb 27 2009
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Ottawa’s Sufi Girl has a story to tell.
Eight years ago, I began an all-consuming love affair with Guinean dance—an entanglement made even more personal when I married Akra, a Guinean drummer in April of 2007. But when Akra disappeared permanently from our Ottawa apartment a month after his arrival to Canada, everything I thought I had loved seemed to vanish in the breadth of a few drum beats…
complete article from issue 18 of Guerilla Magazine
