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Reenacting the Past at Newtown Friends School

Ahmad Kenya performed "The Life & Times of Omar ibn Sayyid" at Newtown Friends School Wednesday.

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Check out Newtown Patch's photo slideshow of "The Life & Times of Omar ibn Sayyid" reenactment at Newtown Friends School on Wednesday morning. The 18th century dramatic historical slave reenactment was written and performed by Ahmad Kenya.

Kenya plays out the 18th century life and times of a devoutly religious man named Omar ibn Sayyid, who was a teacher and scholar from Futa Torro in West Africa.  Sayyid made the pilgrimage to Mecca before his capture and subsequent enslavement in North Carolina.  

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