Trinidad and Tobago is included in the upcoming Netflix documentary Bigger than Africa, which premieres on May 13, as one of six nations where Yoruba culture has survived. Cultural activist Eintou Pearl Springer, historian Valerie Taylor, and late artist LeRoy Clarke are among the local interviewees. According to the Netflix synopsis, the video explores Yoruba culture by following the transatlantic slave trade path from West Africa to the United States, Nigeria, Brazil, Republic of Benin, Trinidad and Tobago, and Cuba. It investigates the causes behind Yoruba culture’s powerful and long-lasting presence in these countries, as well as the significance of spirituality in the fight for emancipation and the Civil Rights Movement. Trinidad and Tobago is one of the few nations in the world with an Orisha Marriage Act and the possibility for believers going in court to swear on a block of iron representing the Orisa Ogun, according to the release.

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