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Afro-Nicaraguan

Thus emerged middle classes formed by Zambo, mulatto and Quadroon - those with a quarter black blood - and other mixtures, so that in 1820 they made up 84 percent of the population.


Afro Samurai: Resurrection

American actor Samuel L. Jackson returns as the voice for Afro and Ninja-Ninja, while this time he is joined by Lucy Liu, who voices Afro's enemy Sio.

Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital

Huddleston's grandson is Mike Espy, a former member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Afro-Brazilian history

The profits were huge: in 1810 a slave purchased in Luanda for 70,000 réis was sold in the District of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, for up to 240,000 réis.

Afro-Brazilian literature

Many of these writers were abolitionists that included Castro Alves, Joaquim Nabuco, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, and Naturalist writers that included Aluísio Azevedo, Jose Veríssimo, and Raul Pompéia.

Afro-Guatemalan

So when the saline control was threatened, they did their best to defend it, even took up arms in 1700 against the forces of the Audiencia.

Afro-Rican

However, Techmaster P.E.B.'s and Bass 305's success in the new sub-genre of "car audio bass" created a niche that was still in its infancy circa 1991, and Rahming saw an opportunity.

Arc d'X

The story begins as a historical novel, telling the story of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his Afro-American mistress Sally Hemings, a young woman with a "skin that was too white to be quite black and too black to be quite white."

Baby Sister

Allmusic described the song as "too cute and overdone to be taken seriously" however The Baltimore Afro-American complimented the track as "new waveish" "ear candy".

Bu Laia

Bu Laʻia (born as Shawn Kaui Hill in Waimanalo, Hawaii) is a Hawaiian comedian known for his use of Hawaiian pidgin and for wearing a large "afro style" wig and blacking out one of his front teeth while performing.

Caitro Soto

Pedro Carlos Soto de la Colina (October 23, 1934, San Luis, Cañete Province, Peru – July 19, 2004, Lima), popularly known as Caitro Soto, was an Afro-Peruvian musician and composer.

Citizens for America

Citizens for America staged an unprecedented meeting of anti-Communist rebel leaders called the "Democratic International", including Nicaraguan, Laotian, Angolan and Afghan (Mujahideen) rebels in June 1985 in Jamba, Angola.

DJ LBC

In 2005, He also hosted the Fanta Mega Music Party which headlined South Africa's Mafikizolo, Pitch Black afro, and Mzekezeke

Donald Barrios

Donald Barrios is a wealthy American businessman, in addition to being the connection between the former United States' Drug Enforcement Administration field agent Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes and Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero, a prominent Nicaraguan drug lord.

Dudu Pukwana

The second was Spear, with whom he recorded the seminal afro-jazz album In The Townships in 1973 for Virgin Records at The Manor Studio.

Elinor Tatum

Ms. Tatum was appointed to her position by her father Wilbert Tatum in 1997, and became one of the youngest publishers in the history of the Afro-American Press.

Escoto

Nazario Escoto, Nicaraguan politician and President of Nicaragua

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

Explorations in afro-cuban dance and drum

"Since 1996 local music teacher/musician Howie Kaufman has led Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum, a workshop series at HSU that brings teachers and students from far and wide. Passion for the clave rhythm led some seriously dedicated Humboldters to find ways around the U.S. blockade (United States embargo against Cuba) of the Caribbean island and bring Cuban music and musicians here."—Doran (2011).

Despite the United States embargo against Cuba, a slight relaxation allowed the Afro-Cuban folkloric group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas to tour the United States in 1992.

Friends of FundeCruz

The Afro-Ecuadorian village of Piquiucho in northern Ecuador's Valle del Chota is a three-hour drive from Quito, the nation's capital.

Gaspar García Laviana

Through his missionary work with Father Pedro Regalado in the parishes of San Juan del Sur and Tola in the department of Rivas, García Laviana worked closely with the Nicaraguan peasants and was intimately aware of the many hardships they faced.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Gladys del Pilar

After the victory in the Melodifestivalen, Afro-dite appeared again in the contest, in 2003 with the song Aqua Playa.

Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for 40 Acres and a Burro

Grenal

Inter was founded in a meeting at the Second District, a bohemian, commercial and college neighborhood, so mostly of the first Inter players and supporters came from this reality: students from inner Rio Grande do Sul, Italian and azorean immigrants and blacks that lived on the place.

Hell-Rider

The latter starred a rough but basically goodhearted biker gang that Reese had encountered, consisting of leader Animal; Afro-haired Deke; weaselly Slinker; tall, blond Curly; and blond biker-babe Ruby.

José Morales

José María Morales (1818–1894), military officer and Afro-Argentine legislator

Julien Klener

His main teachings concerned: Judaism as a cultural system, Biblical Hebrew (undergraduate and graduate students) Comparative linguistics of the Afro-Asiatic languages(graduate students), Semitic Epigraphy(graduate students) and General Introduction to Semitic Studies(graduate students).

Justo Bolekia Boleká

His work has been studied by American professors interested in Afro-Hispanic literary production, and has been included in anthologies of poetry (Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial, de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y Mbare Ngom Faye, 2000; La voz y la escritura 2006: 80 nuevas propuestas poéticas, 2006).

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most important mulatto trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

La Femme Piège

At the same time in London, Jill is working on an article about the Afro-Pakistian and Zuben'Ubisch minority conflicts in the suburbs of Chelsea.

Landron

Jack Landron, an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger, songwriter and actor

Left-wing terrorism

In Latin America, groups that became actively involved in terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s included the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, the Peruvian Shining Path, and the Colombian 19th of April Movement.

Libido language

Libido (also known as Mareqo, Marako) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Ethiopia, which is spoken in the Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, north-east of Hosaena.

Lily Yeh

In 1986, Lily Yeh was asked by Arthur Hall, founder of the Afro-American Dance Ensemble, to create a park in the abandoned lot next to his studio in North Philadelphia.

Mad Ice

Ahmed Mohamed Kakoyi (born in Masaka, Uganda on 8 October 1980) better known by his stage name Mad Ice is a Ugandan singer and songwriter of Raggamuffin and at a later stage with Afro-pop and Afro-soul music.

Mambo

Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of Afro-Caribbean music, particularly danzón; the musical form of the same name developed from this section

Maurice Ruddick

Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Melo language

Melo (also known as Malo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia.

National Afro-American League

The National Afro-American League was formed on January 25, 1890, by Timothy Thomas Fortune.

New Ways but Love Stays

The original design used a photograph which depicted the three Supremes in Afros and black turtlenecks, giving them a Black power look.

Olivia Byington

She also wanted to share the singing, so she shared the microphone with Seu Jorge in "Na Ponta dos Pés," and with the great singer Maria Bethânia in "Mãe Quelé," a homage to Clementina de Jesus, a deceased Afro-Brazilian singer.

Peggielene Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most prominent biracial slave trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Pir Mangho Urs

Some Afro-Arab style festivals and dances like Gowaati, Lewa, Dhamaal, beating Omani style shindo, jabwah, and jasser drums are still popular in Manghopirs Lyari locale.

Princesses Nubiennes

Princesses Nubiennes is the debut studio album by Afro-French music duo Les Nubians.

Rama people

The Rama have struggled against the Nicaraguan government and mestizo landowners for rights to their ancestral lands and have joined forces with the other Nicaraguan indigenous groups the Miskito and the Sumo peoples.

Rara

The genre was imported to the Dominican Republic and is now an integral part of the Afro-Dominican music scene, where it is known colloquially as gagá.

Sumo people

The evidence provided by an analysis of the Misumalpan language family, to which the Mayangna languages belong and which also includes Miskitu and the extinct Matagalpan and Cacaopera tongues once spoken in the Nicaraguan highlands and southern El Salvador, indicates the continuous presence of these groups in the region from around 2000BC.

Yolanda Blanco

Penqueo en Nicaragua was written during the revolutionary fight of the Nicaraguan people that put an end to the regime of Anastasio Somoza.


see also

Dance in Nicaragua

Both the festival and dance are an Afro-Nicaraguan tradition which originated in Bluefields, Nicaragua in the 17th century.