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Ceylon Kaffir Manja musical troupe members and family, Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Justin, member of the musical troupe, Sirambi Adiya January 2013
Mother (right) and daughter (left), Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Rhythm- Ameliana the elder and a young member of the troupe, Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Two sisters, Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Ameliana, the elder, and a young member of the troupe, Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Music in motion, singing and playing, Ceylon Kaffir Manja, Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Afrikans dancing, Sirambi Adiya, January 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankan man at the market in Puttalam, January, 2013
Lionel Mandy (left), African Sri Lankan Benedict Francis Callistis (center), Z. Ameen Saleh (right) in Puttalam, January 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankans in Palauttu, Trincomalee: Marceline Alphonso, elder (age 89), and grandson, March, 2013
Three generations of Afrikan Sri Lankans: Marceline Alphonso, one of his daughters, and her son, Palauttu, Trimcomalee, March, 2013. Note how the Afrikan features are less pronounced in succeeding generations.
Homes in Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Two generations of Afrikan Sri Lankans in Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Mary Elizabeth Williams, age 75, second eldest Afrikan Sri Lankan in Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Two generations of Afrikan Sri Lankans, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Growing Afrikan consciousness: the old business card is at the top- 'Ceylon Kaffir Manga'. The new card is below- 'Ceylon African Manja'. April 2013
Extended family members, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013. Note the different hair textures and skin tones among those of mixed Afrikan and Sinhalese ancestry.
Three generations of Afrikan Sri Lankans- youth, elders (sitting), and adults, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankan woman (center) leaving a Catholic church, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Closer view of same woman as photo to the left, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
More Afrikan Sri Lankan women leaving church, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Closer view of one of the women depicted in the photo to the left, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Mother (right) and daughter (left) leaving church, Sirambi Adiya, April 2013
Ameliana (right, looking at article in the Financial Digest of Sri Lanka on the Afrikan Sri Lankans) and daughter, Sirambi Adiya October 2013
Sherin (left) and Sithara (center), leaders of the Ceylon Kaffir Manja troupe, with Sherin's sister, who is also Sithara's mother (right), Sirambi Adiya October 2013
The elder of Sirambi Adiya, Marcus Jerome Ameliana, age 83, Sirambi Adiya October 2013
Lionel Mandy (back row) and Nirosha Kulasakera (right, researching the language these Afrikans use when singing) with three generations of Afrikan Sri Lankans, Sirambi Adiya October 2013
Theresa Alphonso (left, wife, 80 years), Iqbal (center, son-in-law), and Marceline Alphonso, elder (right, husband, age 89), Palauttu, October 2013
Theresa Alphonso (top) with two granddaughters), Palauttu, October 2013
Marceline Alphonso with his daughter (left) and her daughter (right)), Palauttu, October 2013
Marceline Alphonso and daughter, Palauttu, October 2013
Marceline Alphonso's brother David, Palauttu, October 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankans in the north: Alphonso Noel Selvarasa (also called Kuti), son of Marceline Alphonso. He lives in Jaffna, which is at the north end of Sri Lanka. November, 2013
Alphonso Noel Selvarasa, his wife, who is a Tamil, and two of their children, Jaffna, November 2013
Kuti's son and his wife (she is a Tamil), Jaffna, November 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankans living in Negombo: Two grandchildren of David from Palauttu. A photo of their parents is in the background. November 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankans living in Negombo: She is a daughter of Alphonso's sister Mary. November 2013
Nirosha Kulasakera (left), Benedict Francis Callistis and his wife, who is Sinhala (center), and Lionel Mandy at their home, Good Shed, Puttalam, November 2013
Afrikan men and women in Sirambi Adiya. To the left is Sherin with her two daughters and her young son (front), November 2013
Marcus Joseph Elias, age 78, brother of Ameliana, with Lionel Mandy, Nirosha Kulasakera, and the daughter of Sri Lankan author Asiff Hussein at Elias's home, Good Shed, Puttalam, November 2013
Reuben, brother of Marceline Alphonso (left) and his son Robinson at their home in Good Shed Puttalam, November, 2013
Afrikan Sri Lankan in Kala Oya: Martino Francis Miranda at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, February 2014
Mary Janet reviewing a newspaper story on the Afrikan Sri Lankans, Sirambi Adiya, February 2014
Sirambi Adiya 'chief' Peter Louis on the main road (A12) in Sirambi Adiya, February 2014
African Sri Lankans at the library in Sirambi Adiya for a ceremony, February 2014.
Suberappa Khalil, Afrikan Sri Lankan Muslim, vendor in Puttalam, February 2014
Solomon Linton, three-wheel driver in Puttalam, February 2014
Marcus Michael, one of Ameliana's brothers, St. Mary's Church, Puttalam, April 2014.
Part of the Afrikan Sri Lankan community from Puttalam and Sirambi Adiya at St. Mary's Church on Good Friday, April 2014.
Leonis George Ignatius, one of Sherin's brothers and Ameliana's sons (left) and another Afrikan Sri Lankan man at St. Mary's Church, Puttalam, April 2014
Marceline Alphonso and one of his children's families, Palauttu, Easter Sunday, April 2014
An extended family of the Marceline Alphonso lineage in Palauttu, Easter Sunday, April 2014
Yet another family of children and grandchildren of Marceline Alphonso in Palauttu on Easter Sunday, April 2014
Marceline and Theresa Alphonso (center), their son Pius and his daughter (standing), and Alphonso's nephew Paul (seated, right) in Palauttu on Easter Sunday, April 2014
Afrikan Sri Lankan men making music in Kalpitiya, August 2014
Approximately half of the Afrikan Sri Lankan community in Kalpitiya, August 2014
Afrikan Sri Lankan women and men singing and playing in Kalpitiya, August 2014
Solomon Dominique Lazarus, brother of Solomon Linton (Puttalam, three wheel driver) and Solomon Emanuel (Kalpitiya, pink shirt) at the Puttalam Lagoon in Kalpitiya, August 2014
An Afrikan Sri Lankan man who lives near Good Shed and Sirambi Adiyb in the Puttalam, August, 2014
Advertisement in Sinhala for a performance by the Afrikans from Sirambi Adiya in Colombo, 2014
Visit with the family- Sirambi Adiya, March 2015.
First sight: researcher Nirosha Kulasekara shows Afrikans in Sirambi Adiya their pictures on afrikansrilankans.weebly.com for the first time.
Afrikan Sri Lankan father, daughter who is Afrikan and Sinhala, Sinhala mother, Puttalam, March 2015.
Pushparani, sister to Solomon Linton, Solomon Dominique, and Solomon Emanuel, Puttalam, March 2015.
Marcus Joseph Elias at his home in Goodshed, Puttalam, March 2015.
Raphael Mary Irene, sister-in-law to Marcus Joseph Elias and also his next-door neighbor, Woodshed, Puttalam, March 2015.
Grandmother and grandsdaughter, Kalpitiya, March 2015
Son of Sinhala father and Afrikan Sri Lankan mother, age 21, Kalpitiya March 2015.
Edward at his home near Kalpitiya, March 2015.
Modern-day Afrikans: A woman from Uganda who is studying in Colombo and her four month-old son, August 2014.
A modern Afrikan Sri Lankan in Anuradhapura who looks like the brother of the Afrikan guru from India known as Sai Baba.
Modern Sri Lankan Afrikans: A young man living in Colombo whose mother is Sri Lankan and whose father is Afrikan (from Jamaica).
Modern-day Afrikans: Brother (here) and sister (next photo) whose mother is Afrikan/Jamaican and father is Sri Lankan Sinhala.
Modern-day Afrikans: Sister (here) and brother (previous photo) whose mother is Afrikan/Jamaican and father is Sri Lankan Sinhala.
Patriarch of the Afrikan Sri Lankans in the east: Marceline Bard Alphonso at his home, November 2015.
Matriarch of the Afrikan Sri Lankans in the west: Marcus Jerome Ameliana at her home in Sirambi Adiya, November 2015.
Auntie and two grandchildren, Sirambi Adiya, April, 2016.
Justin and 18 year old relative, Sirambi Adiya, April 2016.
Ameliana, her daughter, and two great grandchildren, Sirambi Adiya, April, 2016.
Afrikan Sri Lankan woman who is employed at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, August 2016.
Afrikan Sri Lankan Sureshi Jayawardene begins her doctoral dissertation on the Afrikan Sri Lankans on the west coast of Sri Lanka, August 2016.
Age two in the first and fourth rows of photos above (being held), this Afrikan Sri Lankan is now six years old. Sirambi Adiya, August 2016.
Linton, three wheel driver (left) and Sureshi Jayawardene (right) discussing visiting and interviewing Afrikans in Puttalam, August 2016.
Linton, left, and his brother Lazarus, kite surfing instructor, right, in Kalpitiya, August 2016.
Sureshi Jayawardene (right) meets some of the Afrikan community in Kalpitiya, August 2016.
Linton (right), his son (left), and his grandson (center), Puttalam, August 2016.
Modern day Afrikan in Sri Lanka: Kenyan Architecture intern and student at the University of Moratura.
Modern-day Afrikan in Sri Lanka: Footballer from Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in Wellawatte.
Descended from an Afrikan grandfather brought to eastern Sri Lanka by the British, this woman lives in Malabe.
Troupe of Sri Lankan young men performing at Ape Gama in Kotte, October 2016.
Ceylon African Manga musical troupe singing at Ape Gama in Kotte, October 2016.
Ceylon African Manga musical group singing and the women dancing, Kotte, October 2016.
Ceylon African Manga men dancing and troupe singing at Ape Gama, October 2016.
Ceylon African Manga- couple dancing and troupe singing at Ape Gama, Kotte, October 2016.
Afrikan Sri Lankan whose family is from Bussa in southern Sri Lanka. January 2017.
This man is a Tamil (Tamils came from southern India). He lives in Arugam Bay on the east coast. Are Tamils Afrikans? January 2017
Afrikans from Kalpitiya perform at ICES, the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, February 2017
Kalpitiya Afrikans sing a song to St. Mary, Colombo, February 2017
Afrikan Men from the Kalpitiya musical troupe dance at ICES in Colombo February 2017.
Kalpitiya Afrikan women dance, Colombo, February 2017.
And they dance some more, Colombo, February 2017.
The Afrikan singing and dance troupe from Kalpitiya, February 2017.
Two Afrikans visiting Sri Lanka: Afrikan American (left) and Nigerian American (right), Colombo, May 2017
Father is half Nigerian, half Sri Lankan. His daughter is three quarters Sri Lankan and one quarter Nigerian, Colombo May 2017.
Sri Lankan with tight Afrikan hair- first in 3 generations with this hair, Dehiwela, June 2017..
Woman from Maldives where Afrikans engaged in trade for many centuries. Colombo, June 2017.
Young man with distinctly Afrikan features and hair. Colombo, June 2017.
Photo of a Sri Lankan man taken 40 years ago. Note the Afrikan hair and facial features. July 2017.
Ten year old young man in Colombo wuth Afrikan hair and facial features. July 2017.
Photo of filmmaker Chandran Ratnam's mother taken 60 years ago. Note her Afrikan hair and facial features. July 2017.
Photo of an Adi Vaasi or Vedda (the ancient people of Sri Lanka) man taken in the 19th century. Afrikan features are clear.
Banner for celebration of 200 years since the British abolished slavery in Sri Lanka, and 500 years since the first Afrikans were enslaved + transported to Sri Lanka: Puttalam, September 2017.
Two Afrikan men from the community from Sirambi Adiya: Puttalam, September 2017.
Enactment of the serenity of life in Afrika before the eras of European enslavement: Puttalam, September 2017.
Enactment of an Afrikan Sri Lankan woman and man being married by a Portuguese Catholic priest: Puttalam, September 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan women and children dancing at celebration: Puttalam, September 2017.
Sinhalese wife and Afrikan Sri Lankan husband: Puttalam, September 2017.
Young Afrikan woman, part of commemoration of end of enslavement: Puttalam, September, 2017.
Mother (age 85) and daughter (age 50) dancing at the commemoration of the end of enslavement in Sri Lanka: Puttalam, September, 2017.
Afrikans dancing: commemoration in Puttalam, September, 2017.
And more dancing: Afrikan celebration in Puttalam, September, 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan woman at commemoration: Puttalam, September, 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan elders, both in their late 80s: commemoration in Puttalam, September 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan girl, age 7, at commemoration: Puttalam, September, 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan group photo: commemoration in Puttalam, September, 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan men, leaders of the community in Sirambii Adiya: at commemoration in Puttalam, September, 2017.
Leaders of the Afrikan Sri Lankan community at commemoration i Puttalam, September, 2017.
Sri Lankan Tamil woman in Colombo, September, 2017.
Sinhalese Sri Lankan woman with Afrikan hair: Colombo, September 2017.
Sinhalese woman with Afrikan hair and features, from Matara, in southern Sri Lanka, December, 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan mother and son in Bussa, southern Sri Lanka (see photo of the son, above, in this gallery), October, 2017.
Grandmother (center), cousin (second from the left), and aunts- all Afrikan Sri Lankans- and relatives of the man on the left (see previous photo): Bussa, October, 2017.
Afrikan Sri Lankan woman from Thabbowa, Sri Lanka: December, 2017.