Travels with Tooy. History, memory, imagination of black Americas

The reader is immersed in three centuries of history and the extraordinarily rich culture of the Saramaka. The erudite knowledge of Tooy, a Saramaka captain in Cayenne, French Guiana, is told here in an extremely lively way. The songs, the stories, the remedies, the secret languages, open the door to a conception of the world of great spirituality. And as Richard Price points out: "The history of this remarkable people, illustrated by Tooy's version, bears witness to the struggles of several generations of captive Africans and their descendants."