Sankofa Djinns
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 Evince Loba (1st from right) with other members of the group at an appearance at Expo 2000 on August 7th |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | World music |
| founding | 2000 |
Sankofa Djinns ( Djinns von Sankofa ) is an Ivorian music group from Abidjan that was invited to the Expo 2000 in Hanover.
style
A special feature of the group is that it is not limited to a certain group of songs or ethnic groups, but that its members came from the most diverse ethnic groups of the Ivory Coast and they sing songs in different African languages. The variations ranged from the Muslim north to percussion from the Ivorian south.
Band history
Expo 2000
The Papmaaf project ("Promotion of African Arts and Music", from French "Project pour la Promotion de la Musique et des Arts Africains") was launched to give as many members as possible the chance to share their artistic passion in the Ivory Coast pursue for which generally no public funding is available. After winning a major music festival in Ghana , this West African group of 30 members was invited to Expo 2000. In addition to participating in the Expo opening and the Expo farewell ceremony as well as other Expo action days, Sankofa Djinns was seen under the "Papmaaf" in the summer of 2000 in the ZDF program ZDF-Fernsehgarten .
Accommodation during the expo
During the official opening ceremony of Expo 2000 from June 1st to June 5th, the group was housed in the youth camp of Expo 2000 with a number of other artist groups, including from Brazil, Australia, South Korea and French Polynesia. The evenings in the youth camp were characterized by musical and dance-like understanding between the continents.
After the opening ceremony, Sankofa Djinn's found a place to stay in Minden, Westphalia, where she had room for her artistic rehearsals in the accommodation of deaconesses in the Minderheide.
After the expo
After the end of the expo, the group separated: some members stayed as immigrants in Germany or France, but a large part returned to the Ivory Coast, including the lead singer, Evince Loba. This core of the group continues to try to motivate musicians and dancers to keep the Papmaaf project alive. Some members had newly formed a group called Ramadia in Oldenburg and appeared at the 2003 International Garden Show in Rostock .
The civil war that began in Ivory Coast in 2002 has rapidly deteriorated the economic situation. Because of the displacement in the north, many people fled to the economic metropolis of Abidjan. There were fewer opportunities to perform and the shared accommodation in Abidjan had to be abandoned. In addition, it was no longer possible to organize catering centrally, so that the music and cultural project that had developed broke up. Today the group consists of members who, however, no longer live together centrally. Evince Loba, head of the group, released an album under the stage name Dino Malachie in 2004 in Ivory Coast, which includes changes to some of the old tracks by Sankofa Djinns, but also new tracks.
Discography
- 2000: Sankofa Djinns
- 2004: Hypocrites (under the name "Dino Malachie et Sankofa Djinns")