THE EREBA COLLECTIVE
CULTURE-BASED LEARNING LABORATORY
The Ereba collective has been designed to be a receptacle of pedagogical materials intended to help members of our community to form a strong sense of identity and belonging.
Connecting With My Garifuna Culture | Nodia Mena
Prof. Nodia C. Mena was born in Honduras, Central America. She graduated with a master’s degree in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Cassava Bread making in a Garfiuna community in Belize
This video is an excerpt from a longer film entitled THE GARIFUNA JOURNEY. This particular segment documents the process of making cassava bread in a coastal town in Southern Belize. All the women participating in this event are Garifuna.
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- Baking Ereba, Building Community
During the 2011-2012 academic year, I had a Fulbright U.S. Student grant to Honduras. My research was about the women who bake cassava bread in the Afro-indigenous Garifuna community. In the Garifuna language, cassava bread is called ereba (uh-ray-buh). I studied how the women are using culinary tradition of ereba making as a means to economic development. Below is a picture of me trying to actually bake some ereba, which is harder than it looks.