Author: Dara Healy

Dara E Healy “…in my journey I would realise why our Obeah is so strong, what was our Obeah – our mask and our masking. Masking as the implementing of self, and manifestations of self, masking as a stage of manifestations. How we see ourselves, what we communicate with, how we view our source, our […]

Dara E Healy Music is the atmosphere Sweet music is everywhere Even in the back, in the dark, a blind man can find a melody Music fills the world with happiness Plenty sweetness and togetherness Music have no friends or enemies Everybody could dingolay Dingolay! – Mighty Shadow, Dingolay HIS JOY while he was playing […]

A traditional mas Christmas Dara E Healy “I am the Pierrot With word skills fuh so I am an orator from long ago And bonjay, I could fight too! Me and my band of pierrot Claim we space We defy colonial masters And take over the place With we bois and speech We safeguard we […]

Dara E Healy A traditional mas Christmas “Oh ho! Don’t play you didn’t know I am a pierrot, like the griot from long ago They say I am French, but only in name My clothing and speech are from Africa I proclaim! From the Yoruba came the strips of cloth In honour of the egungun […]

Dara E Healy “He walks on extraordinarily long wooden legs and because of this enormous height is a magnificent, stately floating presence, high up in the sky…African griots expounded tales of these tall statuesque figures literally floating, in the dead of night, through darkened villages and forests as the symbol of an avenger to those […]