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About Phavia Kujichagulia

Phavia Kujichagulia is a Griot / Djialli (Oral Historian who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history). Ms. Kujichagulia dynamically orchestrates African rhythms, Jazz and pop into a hypnotic rhapsody. Her performances include the World Drum Festival, National Black Expo, the John Coltrane Festival and Nelson Mandela’s 1990 U.S.A. Tour. Between 1990 and 1999, Ms. Kujichagulia was the cultural director and co-leader of E.W.Wainwright’s African Roots of Jazz. She now performs with her latest group MA’AT. Her most recent CD, THE HUMAN RACE, is available on Kujichagulia Records and www.theorchard.com.

Phavia Kujichagulia is founder and Executive Director of A. Wisdom Company (est. 1986) and Kujichagulia Records. She was the co-host of “Black Awakening” television program on SBTV, and hosted “The Semantics of Survival” radio program in Berkeley, California.

Ms. Kujichagulia was a professor of Ethnomusicology and African Civilizations at World College West and Stanford University’s Workshop on Political and Social Issues. She also taught Creative Writing and Performance Art at the California Youth Authority and the California State School for the Arts at Mills College. For more than 16 years, Phavia Kujichagulia taught Creative Writing and Performance Art for the California Department of Corrections at Folsom, Soledad, Vacaville, Susanville and San Quentin Prisons.

Phavia Kujichagulia is also a powerful and dynamic speaker. She lectures and facilitates seminars/workshops at numerous universities, colleges conferences and events throughout the USA and abroad.

 

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