Afrykanie ze Sri Lanki - Redux

Joyce Elizabeth Williams, 53, during Sunday Mass at Siriambadiya church. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean th...

Sherin Alexander (centre) prays during Sunday Mass at Siriambadiya church. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean...

Daisy Perela, 63, shows a picture of her husband and his brother in her house in an area outside of Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African...

An elderly Afro-Sri Lankan carries a candle in the village of Siriambadiya. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocea...

Solomon Matthew Linton, 59, sits in the doorway of a friends house in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the In...

Litty Chrishanty, 38, at work in a small family run garment factory in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the I...

Mary Ireen, 63, stands by her fence in the Goodshed area of Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean...

Daisy Perela, now 63, holds a photograph of her younger self close to the village of Kalypitiya. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surr...

Litty Chrishanty, 38, at work in a small family run garment factory in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the I...

Community elder Reuben Marceline, 88, touch a crucifix he keeps around his neck in his house in the Goodshed area of Puttalam town. Out of all commu...

Estella Champika, 50, and her son who has a Sinhalese father, coconut plantation where she works in Maduragama village. Out of all communities of Af...

Benedict Vancis Callistis, now 62, (right) on his wedding day to a local Sinhalese lady. Both Benedict's grandparents and father were Afro-Sri Lankan...

Vincent Solomon, born in 1946, sits in his house in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean those of...

Marceline Johnson (right) sits with Solomon Matthew Linton in his house in the Goodshed area of Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African dia...

Marceline Johnson in his house in the Goodshed area of Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean thos...

George Gabriel, 60, sits in the front room of his house in Puttalam town. Now retired he was previously a lorry driver. Out of all communities of Afr...

Estella Champika, 50, (centre) chats with friends on the coconut plantation where she works in Maduragama village. Out of all communities of African...

Afro-Sri Lankan elder Mary Ursula, 82, sits in the doorway of her house in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround th...

Shop keepers chat in the sleepy town of Puttalam. It was a major trading port in the centuries prior and now the stronghold for the largest Afro-Sri L...

Solomon Matthew Linton, 59, stands by the window of his house in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian O...

A Catholic shrine stands in the Muslim dominated town of Puttalam. The shrine is close by to St Mary's Church where centuries ago most of the Afro-Sri...

Mary Janet prepares food in her kitchen in Siriambadiya village. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean those of S...

Sherin Alexander, President of the Ceylon African Society, in her house in Siriambadiya. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the...

The Ceylon Africa Manja Group of Siriambadiya village practice their songs and dancing. Remarkably the songs are still sung in Portuguese Creole but w...

The Ceylon Africa Manja Group of Siriambadiya village practice their songs and dancing. Remarkably the songs are still sung in Portuguese Creole but w...

Sunday Mass at Siriambadiya Church. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean those of Sri Lanka are by far the small...

Peheli Omella (centre) during Sunday Mass at Siriambadiya Church. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean those of...

A portrait of Marcus Elias at his home in the Good Shed area of Puttalam Town. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Oc...

Sherin Alexander, President of the Ceylon African Society, stands in the porch of Marcus Elias's house in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of Af...

Rajuka Priyadharshani at work in a small coconut oil factory in the town of Puttalam. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the I...

Afro-Sri Lankan Olivia Alexander, 14, (centre) takes part in early morning exercises at Siriambadiya school. She is the only Afro-Sri Lankan in her cl...

Portrait of Peter Luis, now 61 years old, at the time of his wedding. Out of all communities of African diaspora that surround the Indian Ocean those...

Afro-Sri Lankan Olivia Alexander, 14, practices writing english on the black-board at Siriambadiya school. Out of all communities of African diaspora...

Portraits of husband and wife Leon and Paulina Peter were taken in the 1940's in a photographic studio in Puttalam town. Out of all communities of Af...

Maria Jasintha, 45, sits in her living room with her Sinhalese husband in Siriambadiya. He's a fisherman from the city of Negembo. Their son who works...

Sherin Alexander, President of the Ceylon African Society, helps her daughter with her hair before school in Siriambadiya. Out of all communities of...

Maria Jasintha, 45, runs to turn the kettle off in her house in Siriambadiya. Her husband is Sri Lankan and their son who works in Qatar as a construc...