Announcer the siddi people are descendants of african slaves. The history of a forgotten people. Narrator r they dance to t thet of the african drum, deep in the forest, mimicking a disappearing species that theyve grown to lovethe asiatic lion. Theyre part of the 20,000 siddis, an ethnic group of african descent, who live in gujarat, western india. [boy speaking local language] narrator though far removed] from their a ancestral lands, te siddis s have cheherished their culture. [drums beating] now its a source of income for them. Narrator imran is a siddi, a descendant of the bantu people from southeast africa. He believes his ancestors originally came from uganda. Now he lives in a small village called jambur, with his mother and grandmother. The village is surrounded by the forest of gir, the last bastion of the worlds 500 remaining asiatic lions. Centuries ago, africans from ethiopia, eritrea, and somalia sailed to the indian subcontinent as merchants, while others were brought as
Announcer the siddi people are descendants of african slaves. The history of a forgotten people. Narrator r they dance to t thet of the african drum, deep in the forest, mimicking a disappearing species that theyve grown to lovethe asiatic lion. Theyre part of the 20,000 siddis, an ethnic group of african descent, who live in gujarat, western india. [boy speaking local language] narrator though far removed] from their a ancestral lands, te siddis s have cheherished their culture. [drums beating] now its a source of income for them. Narrator imran is a siddi, a descendant of the bantu people from southeast africa. He believes his ancestors originally came from uganda. Now he lives in a small village called jambur, with his mother and grandmother. The village is surrounded by the forest of gir, the last bastion of the worlds 500 remaining asiatic lions. Centuries ago, africans from ethiopia, eritrea, and somalia sailed to the indian subcontinent as merchants, while others were brought as
Announcer the siddi people are descendants of african slaves. The history of a forgotten people. Narrator r they dance to t thet of the african drum, deep in the forest, mimicking a disappearing species that theyve grown to lovethe asiatic lion. Theyre part of the 20,000 siddis, an ethnic group of african descent, who live in gujarat, western india. [boy speaking local language] narrator though far removed] from their a ancestral lands, te siddis s have cheherished their culture. [drums beating] now its a source of income for them. Narrator imran is a siddi, a descendant of the bantu people from southeast africa. He believes his ancestors originally came from uganda. Now he lives in a small village called jambur, with his mother and grandmother. The village is surrounded by the forest of gir, the last bastion of the worlds 500 remaining asiatic lions. Centuries ago, africans from ethiopia, eritrea, and somalia sailed to the indian subcontinent as merchants, while others were brought as
Announcer the siddi people are descendants of african slaves. The history of a forgotten people. Narrator r they dance to t thet of the african drum, deep in the forest, mimicking a disappearing species that theyve grown to lovethe asiatic lion. Theyre part of the 20,000 siddis, an ethnic group of african descent, who live in gujarat, western india. [boy speaking local language] narrator though far removed] from their a ancestral lands, te siddis s have cheherished their culture. [drums beating] now its a source of income for them. Narrator imran is a siddi, a descendant of the bantu people from southeast africa. He believes his ancestors originally came from uganda. Now he lives in a small village called jambur, with his mother and grandmother. The village is surrounded by the forest of gir, the last bastion of the worlds 500 remaining asiatic lions. Centuries ago, africans from ethiopia, eritrea, and somalia sailed to the indian subcontinent as merchants, while others were brought as
Announcer the siddi people are descendants of african slaves. The history of a forgotten people. Narrator r they dance to t thet of the african drum, deep in the forest, mimicking a disappearing species that theyve grown to lovethe asiatic lion. Theyre part of the 20,000 siddis, an ethnic group of african descent, who live in gujarat, western india. [boy speaking local language] narrator though far removed] from their a ancestral lands, te siddis s have cheherished their culture. [drums beating] now its a source of income for them. Narrator imran is a siddi, a descendant of the bantu people from southeast africa. He believes his ancestors originally came from uganda. Now he lives in a small village called jambur, with his mother and grandmother. The village is surrounded by the forest of gir, the last bastion of the worlds 500 remaining asiatic lions. Centuries ago, africans from ethiopia, eritrea, and somalia sailed to the indian subcontinent as merchants, while others were brought as