Asadata Dafora papers 1933-1963

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Asadata Dafora papers 1933-1963

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Correspondence mainly addressed to Dafora from friends, business associates, and promotional agents; some express his continued association with Sierra Leone. Also, personal papers, autobiographical sketch written in 1960, agreements, contracts, drafts of plays and performances, sheet music, programs, announcements with promotional releases, and news clippings relating to Dafora's career and to African dance forms he used in his performances and to African culture in general. Correspondents include Orson Welles, discussing a plan to film Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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