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Music professor to premiere ‘Walking With My Ancestors,’ November 6

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In spring 2009 and summer 2013, Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, a professor in the School of Music at Illinois State University, walked through several slaveholding dungeons—the wombs in which enslaved Africans were born—on Gorée Island, Senegal, and Elmina and Cape Coast, Ghana. She sat in those cells, and listened to and reflected on the past and