Cubans Find Their Ancestors In Sierra Leone


There’s a reason for his disbelief. When the people onscreen aren’t singing in a language they have otherwise long ago forgotten, they speak the rapid, pared Spanish of Cuba. Clearly they are not from Pokawa’s chiefdom, where few speak the English of the educated and no one speaks Spanish.

Yet, for all that, the people from Perico, Cuba are from here. They are Pokawa’s people, their ancestors exiled centuries ago as slaves…

 Read the fascinating article at the above link.  Thanks to Dr. Detroit for the above link.

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