Migritude on CNN

An article on CNN Traveller, Sail of the Century, talks about Migritude at the Zanzibar International Film Festival in July this year.

If Zanzibar should interpret globalisation as a people-centred phenomenon of migration and exchange, then spoken-word artist Shailja Patel's performance best exemplified that notion. Delivering a resounding rendition from her work, entitled Migritude, the Kenyan-born Patel expressed the conflicts inherent within the definition of identity. Ethnically Indian, Patel's family has lived in East Africa, from Zanzibar to Kenya, for several generations.

'What Migritude says is that there is a culture, a world view that comes out of those histories of migration that is incredibly rich and vital,' says Patel. 'That's really what Ziff - and Zanzibar - is at the centre of. Zanzibar is all about the dhow culture. It is about the constant exchange between these mainlands.'