This Thursday 25 August began the third cycle of talks “educate yourself: Claiming voices and memory”, organized by the Empress Menen Asfaw Chile Foundation (FEMA), initiative that began in the year 2020 and that has positioned itself as a self-training space whose protagonists are Rastafarian women from Chile and also from Latin America..
In the first meeting of this third cycle -under the title “First impulses of Rastafari women in Latin America”-, the famous singers Ysabel Omega (Peru) Y Alika (Argentina) exposed their visions, experiences and discussed the role of Rastafari women in the development and expansion of reggae in their own countries and in the region.
It should be noted that each of the artists mentioned are considered pioneering women of reggae in Peru and Argentina., as well as icons of the genre in South America, at the same time as being a reference for Rastafari women in reggae.
“The Cycle of Talks 'Educate yourself’ that we organize annually from FEMA is a self-training space, of orality, where we can nurture ourselves collaboratively and horizontally, listening to knowledge, experiences and meditations of Rastafarian women. That two pioneer sisters in reggae and Rastafari culture in Latin America have been together in the first talk of this year, It has been a very valuable milestone, an exemplary learning moment, appreciation and unity”, commented You enter, founding member of FEMA and one of the organizers of the talks.
Iniris adds that “It is a space that contributes a lot to the Latin American and international Rastafari movement., because it has the purpose of making visible and linking different perspectives and projects that arise from sisters and members or Rastafari organizations, it is a meeting point, pooling for future projections”.
Relive the talk here:
