Reading intro to African Kingdoms edited by Saheed Aderinto and it speaks of Africa being a continent of a triple heritage: traditional religion & spirituality, Islam and Christianity. While we know the latter two came in through colonization by non-Afrikans, it is a fact that
many parts of the continent have embedded them into their cultures for centuries now. The text mentions that from the 12th century Islam became integral politically in the structures of many Afrikan kingdoms and societies. Then in the 19th century, Christianity enters, and it's
Oct 13, 2021 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Just read @bahamianista242 article on colorism & carnival & this isn't the first time I hear this. Some yrs ago, talked to a dark skin sista who hits up all the carnivals throughout the Caribbean and she told me the same thing...she spoke on how nuff colorism a gwaan!
For those of us who know Caribbean societies, this should be no surprise. Colorism is ingrained in these Afrodiasporic societies and it only makes sense for it to seep through into carnival.
they covering structural racism and young brother even cited Frantz Fanon cc @AishaDaughter
Mar 5, 2020 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Many people are only familiar with the existence of Africans on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Colombia, however there is another region populated by Africans in the Andes, South of the city of Cali, in Southern Valle del Cauca and Northern Cauca. Ms. Marquez is from there!
Africans enriched the colony through their enslaved labor on the sugar cane plantations and gold mines of this Afro-Andean region. This region also developed freed African settlements better known as maroon towns.
Feb 4, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Those who have the money and power to put the real Afro Caribbean musicians from AfroColombia on their platform, their music, and videos would be putting our Bullerengue queen Petrona Martinez on so the world will learn who Petrona is....hear this thump!
If they really cared about us. If they really wanted to honor us.
Jan 30, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Before they became part of Colombia... San Andres, Providencia, & Santa Catalina were colonized by the British. Their culture is similar to other Creole English-speaking locations in the Caribbean. San Andres Kriol is strikingly similar to Belizean Kriol.
These islands form their own department within Colombia. You have to fly from either Colombia or Panama to get there.
Jan 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A lot of African-descendants in the Americas are oblivious to what the African continent went through in recent history. Meaning not even knowing countries are young, and fresh out of colonialism. Continental Africans were colonized as we also were in the Americas.
Continental Africans are Indigenous to Africa like Native Americans are Indigenous to the Americas. See how much culture was lost among Native Americans? Continental Africans have also lost a lot of culture.
Jan 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A beautiful African people. African-Bahamians were the first African-descended settlers in Miami, with them they brought home structures to the neighborhoods they settled, such as Coconut Grove you can still see today.
If y'all want to go somewhere else aside from South Beach when you go on vacation to my hometown, try checking out the Goombay festival in Coconut Grove to get a taste of Black Miami. MAY 14TH-17TH 2020 …conutgrovebahamiangoombayfestival.com
Jan 19, 2020 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
Salsa music is identified as a Black music in Colombia because the first people to start making it there were Black people from the Pacific Coast. Pacific Coastal Afro-Colombians loved Afro-PR/Cuban music genres that became Salsa, and started their own local AfroColombian version
Peregoyo based out of Buenaventura was 1 of our pioneer groups. They mixed in our traditional Afro genres like Currulao into the music. Then Jairo Varela w/ Grupo Niche from Choco took this further. Grupo Niche is our most famous Salsa group. Niche is slang for Black in Colombia.
Jan 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
AfroColombian activist, Francia Marquez on the term Latino, the term slave, the term Afrodescendant.
Since everyone has shown so much love for Francia's perspective, please check out her main fight, which is deeper than semantics. Afro people from Cauca, the fight for the territory. This is an Afro-Andean region w/ various Black communities #illegalmining
Jan 9, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
If you want to learn more about the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, pick up this book. Although it covers history, there are still intact Indigenous (& Afro-Indigenous) communities on some islands like the Carib of Dominica, and the Santa Rosa community in Trinidad & Tobago.
I had the pleasure of seeing the Carib Queen from Trinidad & Tobago at a Rastafari event in Miami Gardens, FL. She blessed the land before the event started! At the time, I didn't even know Trinidad & Tobago still had Native ppl.
Dec 13, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Currulao is our traditional Black/Afro music on the Pacific Coast of these three departments in Colombia, from north to south they are: Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño.
Out of the three departments, there are 14 predominantly Black municipalities where Currulao is rooted: Buenaventura, Lopez de Micay, Timbiqui, Guapi, Mosquera, Olaya Herrera, La Tola, Francisco Pizarro, El Charco, Santa Barbara, Magui, Roberto Payan, Tumaco, and Barbacoas
Nov 17, 2019 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
We really gotta question people deemed national heroes in our countries. #Jamaican family and all who love #Rasta contributions to humanity, you must know Jamaica's "national hero", Alexander Bustamente, called for the killing of #Rastafari people in #Jamaica. Look up Bad Friday
#Caribbean family #Jamaican family and till dis day many of unu a dis I and I Rasta people. Like Mutabaruka a seh, white people made unu love Bob Marley. Bob Marley was banned on Jamaican radio at one point during his life.
Oct 25, 2019 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
it's funny how some ppl over here try to convince me we're so distant from Africa when I learned bout current African trends through connecting with my AfroColombian heritage. Congolese Soukous is played and reinterpreted in Caribbean Colombia as Champeta. youtube.com/watch?v=D31E5x…
Dancing to Congolese Soukous in Colombia youtube.com/watch?v=rt1hec…
Oct 5, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
I'm making Part Two of my AfroPanamanian threat started here:
on the native/colonial Black Panamanians, and I'll start it off with a story. In Miami, I had a friend who was from Panama, his mom was a Mestiza and she she told me...
that the dark skinned people (Black people) you see in Panama are of Jamaican descent. So this taught me that a stereotype exists there too, like in DR if you're Black or dark skinned you're assumed to be Haitian, it's as if in Panama, you're assumed to be Jamaican which is very
