Video: Sri Lanka’s Kaffir Culture
September 16, 2013
Historians say that the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka started arriving from the eastern shores of Africa in the 1500s with the Portuguese, and later in more waves with the different colonisers of Sri Lanka.
‘Kaffir culture’ is a video portrait of one such community of Kaffirs and the struggle to keep their culture alive in the face of falling numbers.
Written and produced by Kannan Arunasalam.
Music by Ceylon Kaffir Manja, arranged by Jesse Hardman.
Special thanks to Sweta Velpillay (on sound), Nethra Samarawickrema (for help with translations), Leah Worthington (background research) and Greg Kelly (Radio Netherlands). Date of completion 2010
