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Ferlov Mancoba

Audio file 72-2

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American segregation

[likely preceding file: 154-2, Ernest and Sonja took a sojourn to Marseilles] Wonga speaks about the need for representation of Blacks in America culturally and not racially; Ernest speaks of Black musician Arthur Briggs not wanting to confront White racists in St Denis; Wonga asks relevance to his point and Ernest says that protest is first needed

American segregation

Wonga continues about Black politics in America speaking of the Black American soldier, Joe, who deserted the Allied army

also discussed in 154-1

Wonga asks what happened after Ernest and Sonja return to Paris after their short sojourn to Marseilles

Sonja Ferlov Mancoba praxis

Ernest speaks of Sonja's "Skulptur" (1940-46), that she reflected that had the war continued, the work would have taken longer

Sonja Ferlov Mancoba

Wonga speaks of when he is born and the artists to whom he was shown: in Paris, to Alberto Giacometti (in the atelier) and Henri Laurens, and later, in Denmark, Richard Mortensen; Wonga speaks of Sonja's friendship with the Laurens (mentions Brancusi)

Sonja Ferlov Mancoba

[tape stopped and restarts] the first of Sonja's friends to meet Wonga was Clarisse Penso; Wonga speaks of Clarisse, digressing on the political history of Brittany when Clarisse was growing up

American segregation

[tape stopped and restarts] referring to his birth year, 1946, Wonga speaks of jazz and rights of Black musicians [mentions Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Juliette Greco, Louis Armstrong]

[tape ends, continues 73-1]

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31:19
Ernest Mancoba
Wonga Mancoba
Many topics: artists friends, Sonja Ferlov's sculpture during the war, American segregation

About the recordings: Ernest Mancoba's son, Marc also known as Wonga, recorded interviews with his father. The interviews seemed to serve different purposes and are not in chronological order.

ca.1990-2002 (72-2)

The audio files are undated but is likely to have been recorded some time between 1990 and 2002
Time index and commentary prepared by W. Sze
Paris
Estate of Ferlov Mancoba