I is a Long-Memoried Woman. Based on a collection of poems by Grace Nichols - ACE419.5

Nichols’s VO talking about her feelings for the landscape of Guyana, itself in South America. Dancers. Lines from Yemanji read and sung over. Nichols’s VO explaining that Yemanji is a Yoruba goddess who helps the "Long Memoried Woman" understand the kind of action she must take. "Rebellion." Dancers carrying flaming torches. Nichols’s VO explaining that the woman calls on a number of African gods and goddesses. Lines from Omen read over. Lines from Nanny (Ashanti Priestess). Masked dancers. Nichols tells stories of Queen Nanny who helped set up the first state run by escaped slaves in the hills of Jamaica. Woman reciting from Dark Sign and Wind a Change. Dancers. Pictures of the slave uprisings Lines from ...And Toussaint read over. Nichols talking about the slave leader, Toussaint L’Ouverture, who defeated Napoleon’s troops. She says that she was taught about people like William Wilberforce but not about Toussaint; she points out that Haiti became the world’s first black republic.