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COYOLILLO & IT'S AFRO MEXICAN ROOTS

More on African presence in Mexico. Although African relevance and it’s massive contribution to the Mexican history and culture is at the very least ignored, but more often is been under attempts to be erased all together. These efforts to hide the country’s “black” influence may have succeeded in the main media, but in small towns like Coyolillo, African history is as LIVE as ever and celebrated throughout the year! In this short video, I share my experience of the annual The Coyolillo Carnival that happens in February each year. Me, Barbara Morena Tuscott (the DP for the video) and Justine Ella stayed with the royal family in the ‘Casa Mariacruz’, her youngest son Jesus Guadalupe was being crowned the king of 2018 festive season. Maricruz is famous for her delicious food and outgoing personality. The first night when we got their, the neighbors came over and we talked about our brown skin and having a curly hair, I felt celebrated for my ‘blackness’, it was very different from my experiences in Mexico city where yes, being black is also very cool, but in a sense of as long as you are a ‘foreign black’ or ‘exotic black’, in Coyolillo is about being part of the community of other black Mexicans and feeling the sister/brotherhood with them. Let’s take it back shall we, some 200,000 (some historians estimates are as high as 500,000) slaves were brought to Mexico, compared to 450,000 in the U.S., and 4.5 million to Brazil. In the 1742 and 1793 censuses, the Black population of Mexico was roughly 10 percent. Also to that you can add the many uncounted slaves that escaped from United states to Mexico in hopes of freedom and better life. Letting that marinate for a minute, you can imagine how much of African culture and blood runs through Mexico, although if you don’t dig deep enough this may go unnoticed… It’s astonishing to discover these communities of Afro- Mexicans, but once you do, you feel so ALIVE and beyond grateful for their resilience and pride for Africa!!! yep it’s a whole vibe!