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What is a Palenque?
A Palenque is a community founded by runaway African slaves around 400 years ago. West Africans escaping their captors lived in the rain forest. Founding colonies they lived with their traditions, customs and their language. Palenquero is a blend many African languages is still spoken today. only one settlement survives. In this magazine I will share articles about the culture and history of the Palenques in Colombia and Panama.
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The Origin of the Palenqueras It’s not uncommon to see fruit sellers on the street of any city in South America but the Palenqueras of Cartagena have …
Journalist Nathalie Basha spends a day in San Basilio de Palenque learning about how they are preserving their unique afro-colombian culture through food. San Basilio de Palenque was the first freed slave...
Palenqueras in Cartagena | © Luz Adriana Villa/Flickr 2 July 2017 The colourfully dressed Afro-Colombian women selling fruit in the main squares are …
Centuries ago, escaped slaves built isolated forts in the jungles that surround Cartagena, once Colombia's main port for incoming slaves. Today, the …
Gustavo Reyes Reyes stands in his language class in front of two dozen energetic children who have been tasked with calling out the names of the ingredients found in "sancocho", a Colombian soup. "Apù!"...
About an hour outside Cartagena, Colombia is a little town with a big history. San Basilio de Palenque has about 3500 inhabitants and was formed by African slaves who escaped Spanish rulers 400 years...
Thirty years ago, Armin Schwegler traveled to Colombia to visit the Palenque people, an ethnic group dating to the 18th century that speaks a unique, …
I’m still processing the events of the past 8 days of arriving in Colombia’s Caribbean coast… Not long ago I was in San Basilio de Palenque (the first …
1992 documentary on the Caribbean Colombian Maroon Community of San Basilio Palenque located near Cartagena in the department of Bolivar.The focus is on present day descendants of African maroons who against...
Benkos Biohó was the son of an African king born in the late fifteenth century in the region of Bioho in Guinea-Bissau. At a young age, he was …
Abad Leyva (@tecoanapa) ha creado un video corto en TikTok con la música original sound. | Benkos Biohó, freed his ppl and founded Palenque Colombia …