The Gullah are African-Americans who live in the low country region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.
The Gullah are known preserving their African linguistic and cultural heritage. They speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and significant influences from African languages in garmmar and sentence structure. The Gullah language is related to Jamaican Creole, Bahamian Dialect, and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Gullah storytelling, foodways, music, folk beliefs, crafts, farming and fishing traditions, etc. exhibit influences from west and Central African cultures.
In this conversation, we speak with educator, singer, actress and historian Anita Singleton-Prather, a native of the Sea Islands in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Through Anita we also speak to her character, Anita Peralie Sue - a personality based on Anita’s grandmother.
As she has done on stage and film, Anita creatively entertains and educates us about Gullah culture - a culture more vibrant and diverse than most might be led to believe.
At:
http://conversationsontheroad.com (Access May, 2008)
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