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MANILLAS: AFRICAN BRACELET MONEY Copper was the "red gold" of Africa and had been both mined there and traded across the Sahar...

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Across the Atlantic Slave Route, by Saidiya Hartma n From the New York Times , on 11 February 2007, "Erasi...

THE 1950's The 1950's was a time of accelerated political change. At the end of the Second World War there were only three independ...

"The Black Christ of Portobelo is a powerful influence in Panama," Nobody knows exactly how or when the Black Christ (El ...

African slaves in the fierce struggle for freedom against the Spanish Empire (the 'runaways') were also land in the jungle magic Por...

In her article, "Uruguay Spirit of Afro Resistance Alive in Candombe" from Upside Down World , Marie Trigona (a writer, radio prod...