African Odyssey: Village Ki-Yi M'bock
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Channel: Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning · 2018 · Education
In 1985 the Cameroonian artist Werewere Liking founded the Village Ki-Yi M'Bock (signifying "ultimate knowledge" in Liking's native Bassa language) in the bustling capital of Côte d' Ivoire. Today the Ki-Yi is a co-operative "village" within the heart of Abidjan and home to some fifty-odd resident artists of diverse traditions, ages, and origins: dancers, actors, puppeteers, sculptors, painters, costume designers, sound and light technicians, and musicians, among others (recorded in 1997 at C. D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, VA).
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