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Sputnik spoke with a sociologist Lemeva Leidys Valderrama about the examples of resistance of Afro-Colombian communities in her country, as well as the current challenges in the fight against racism.
It’s a Saturday night during the summer of 2021 at The Post Bar, Tottenham, a music venue in north London. The venue is packed with a fervent audience who are dancing to the drums and chants of an unknown-to-them genre called bullerengue. The group bringing this traditional music and dance from Palenque communities across the... <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/colombia/akola-tambo-trailblazers-of-bullerengue-in-london-71640/">Read Article</a>
June 19th signaled an unprecedented shift in Colombian politics. Gustavo Petro and his left-wing coalition, the Pacto Histórico, defeated the far-right wing multi-millionaire Rodolfo Hernández in the second round of the presidential elections. Pedro’s running mate, the environmental activist and human rights lawyer Francia Márquez, is now the first Afro-Colombian woman to ever become Vice-President.
The representation of the former combatants is hanging by a thread after 2026 when they will no longer have guaranteed seats in the legislative powers.
BOGOTA — I was born in 1986 in Colombia. At that time, some families had a machine in our homes that most of us no longer remember or simply never knew about. The rewinder was used to put movies back to the beginning, first in Betamax format and then, from the mid-1990s on, in VHS.