African Heritage in Latin America

• African Hertage Month Events Calendar (Read more in The Brock News)
  • Screenings of Black in Latin America
  • Round Table Response to and Discussion of "Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided," from Black in Latin America.        Round Table Participants:
    • María del Carmen Suescun Pozas (History);
    • Richard Ndayizigamiye (Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures);
    • Tamari Kitossa (Sociology);
    • Alejandro Torres (Former Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, & Chair of the Caribbean and Comparative Studies Group, University of Advanced Sciences, Havana, Cuba)

When: Monday, February 11th, 5:30-8:00 pm
Where: Sankey Chamber
All are welcome.
 

• Brock/Niagara African Canadian Renaissance Group

• African Heritage in Latin America (and other Afro-Latin@ Cultural Exchanges)
  
• Music
  • Susana Baca - Peru
  • Toto La Momposina - Colombia
  • Chucho Valdés - Cuba / Gilberto Gil - Brazil
  • Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopia
  • Cannonball Adderley - USA
  • Concha Buika - Spain
  • Ethiopia - A Musical Perspective - CBC Radio
• History
  • Afro-descendant Population of Latin America
  • Afro-Argentina (in Spanish)
  • Afro-Latin@s in USA (Duke University Press)
  • Black in Latin America (PBS Documentary)
  • Afrolatin@ forum
• Related Links:
  • Cultural Survival Quaterly
  • Africana Resources on the Web - Texas A&M University
  • African Diaspora in Latin America - U Texas at Austin

More to come...

Traditional Burundian woodcarving depicting gift exchanges, artist unknown