Afrocolombianidad
The term used to describe Afro-Colombian people living in Colombia, descendants of those who were brought as slaves from Africa by the Spanish colonizers.
They won freedom in 1851 after the abolition of slavery in Colombia.
By mid-century the black population was largely on both coasts: in the departments of the Pacific (Chocó, Valle, Cauca and Nariño) and in
the Caribbean coast (Bolivar,
Atlántico, and Magdalena). In the last half century a large area of the black population has settled in major cities.
The day of the celebration were honored artists like Joe Arroyo
It is the ethnic representation of our Colombian black, is culture, taste, color, tradition is the representation of a race that descends directly from the black African.
There is a
carnival that blacks and white grass is called "black and white carnival"
which is held every year.
Another carnival in which the protagonists are mainly black is the carnival of Barranquilla.
Colombian
music genres have contributed as important as the cumbia, vallenato, and champeta currulao. Among the musicians stand Afro Joe Arroyo, Pepper Piper, Wilson Manyoma, Alejandro Duran, Toto la Momposina.
LA AFROCOLOMBIANIDAD
Día del Idioma
VISITING BOOK FAIR
We had the pleasure of going to book fair so we visited the young pavilion. Then we visited the pavilion of Ecopetrol.
We have gone at workshop on African descendents where we were taught about the descent of the black race and that place more habit Colombian.
And finally we have been going Ecopetrol´s pavilion where they had many books ofanime in which the majority of students saw them but also it had areas where they wrote the name in Japanese and another place where they sold albums only after that we went to school.
In conclusion we enjoyed to be in that wonderful place.
By BRIAN STIVEN RODRIGUEZ
1003 Morning shift