Introducing the Alafiá Mundo Event Series
The next event is April 14! Many of us won't be visiting South America any time soon. Here's a way to remain connected to Black people on the continent
Alafiá Mundo is an event series founded by Jana Guinond, Zakiya Carr Johnson and Dr. Helena Theodoro and it seeks to raise awareness and support for Afro-Brazilian artists in Samba, especially in these times when we are facing distance, health and economic insecurity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their first season of digital events featured Martinho da Vila, Vovô of Ilê Aiyê and several Samba masters!
Last month I partnered with Alafiá Mundo to create and promote a second season events that build a bridge of understanding across the African Diaspora.
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This month Sheila Walker will bringing with her people who were featured in her book, "Knowledge from Within: Afro-South Americans Speak of their People and their Stories." Each of the guests below will give us insight into their Black communities in South America.
Sheila Walker - Dr. Sheila S. Walker Ph.D, cultural anthropologist and filmmaker, is Executive Director of Afrodiaspora Inc., a non-profit organization that is developing documentaries and educational materials about the global African Diaspora. Her most recent works are the documentary films Familiar Faces/Unexpected Places: A Global African Diaspora, Slave Routes: A Global Vision for the UNESCO Slave Route Project and an edited book Conocimiento desde adentro: Los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y su historia (Afro-South Americans Speak of their People and their Histories) featuring articles by Afrodescendants from all of the Spanish-speaking countries of South America. She also edited the volume African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas and produced the documentary Scattered Africa: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora.
Argentina - Lucía Dominga Molina is an Independent researcher on the Afro-American history and culture. She is founder and President of the Casa de Cultura Indo-Afro-Americana, the oldest association of its kind in the country.
Bolivia - Juan Angola Maconde leads the Pedro Andavérez Peralta Foundation “FUNDAFRO.” He is also an economist, and director of Raíces Magazine.
Chile - Marta Victoria Salgado Henríquez is an Afrodescendant Woman, President of the Oro Negro Non-Governmental Organization of Chilean Afrodescendants.
Uruguay - Juanpedro Machado is a member of the socio-political movements of Afro-descendant communities. He is currently part of the Afro-Uruguayan National Assembly, a national-level institution charged with working on the formation and monitoring of organizations in political management before the State.
Colombia - Raul Alfonso Platicon Caicedo is Afro-Colombian, and a son of migrants from the Colombian Pacific. He graduated in History at the Universidad del Valle, and is a lecturer, poet, writer, storyteller and researcher on themes of Afro-Colombian history and Afro-descendant Diaspora.