by aliciapepev | May 8, 2024 | Homepage People Section, Homepage Sections, Travel and culture, Travel and culture-Colombia
Nia Murillo’s first sewing machine arrived at her home wrapped in a gift box, on February 13, 2001, when the Colombian designer celebrated her 12th birthday. That gift from her parents was the first tool that helped her discover her talent and passion for fashion...
by aliciapepev | May 1, 2024 | Homepage People Section, Homepage Sections, Travel and culture, Travel and culture-Colombia
Historically, the Afro-Colombian community has infused national folklore with its music, dance and other artistic expressions. Afro-descendant communities spread across Colombia’s 32 departments and represent just over 4 million inhabitants. Historically, they...
by aliciapepev | Feb 28, 2024 | Homepage People Section, Homepage Sections, Travel and culture, Travel and culture-Colombia
Colombia had a black president comparable to Barack Obama himself, whose legacy is still unknown in many spheres of the Caribbean country’s political history. His name was Juan José Nieto and, like Obama, he was an Afro-descendant, an intellectual and a...
by aliciapepev | Dec 7, 2023 | Homepage Business Section 02, Homepage Sections, Startups, Startups-Colombia
Benkos Biohó and Martin Luther King were black leaders who left a legacy of struggle and respect for the human rights of Afro-descendant communities in the Americas. Biohó achieved the emancipation of African people from the Spanish yoke in San Basilio de Palenque,...
by aliciapepev | Jun 16, 2023 | Travel and culture, Travel and culture-Colombia
The members of the band Chocquibtown are from El Chocó, a region in the Colombian Pacific where biodiversity reigns, but where you also find “mines full of gold and platinum, pointless self-discrimination, imminent racism, population displacement due to...