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unusual facts about Afro-Peruvian



1996 Chimbote earthquake

The tsunami affected the Peruvian coastal area from Pacasmayo, La Libertad to Callao.

Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

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-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.

Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte

The daughter, called Doña Jesusa de Iturbide, would later marry the prominent Peruvian politician Nicolás de Piérola (They were first cousins).

Aje

Ajegroup, a Peruvian company that produces syrups and nonalcoholic beverages

Alzamora

Augusto Vargas Alzamora (1922-2000), Peruvian Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima

América Televisión

While the station carried both the 1970 and 1978 World Cups, in which the Peruvian national team was highly competitive, and the station added a news program in Quechua in the early 1970s (before its revival as an official language of the country), a major change came about when the military government of the time expropriated 51% of the shares in the station.

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".

Cabo Blanco, Peru

The wave is a hollow powerful left and is reckoned the "Peruvian Pipeline", referring to the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii.

DJ LBC

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

Dúber Zapata

Dúber Alexander Zapata Carrillo (born 2 November 1976 in Zorritos) is a Peruvian footballer who plays primarily as a full back.

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.

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).

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.

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).

Hans Heinrich Brüning

Hans Heinrich (Enrique) Brüning (Aug. 20, 1848, Hoffeld - July 2, 1928, Bordesholm) was a German-born Peruvian ethnologist and collector of antiquities.

History of the Torneo Descentralizado

Melgar finished the 1981 season 1 point ahead of Universitario, who lost to Deportivo Municipal in the playoff matches to decide the second Peruvian team in the 1982 Copa Libertadores.

Horacio Calcaterra

Then in January 2011 he joined recently promoted Peruvian club Unión Comercio.

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 Chorrera, Colombia

The municipality was once a notable site for rubber production, exploited by the Peruvian Julio César Arana brothers at the turn of the 20th century, north of the Putumayo River.

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.

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

Mameria

Between 1984 and 1989 the American explorer Gregory Deyermenjian made five expeditions to Mameria—for three of which he was accompanied by Peruvian explorer Paulino Mamani H.--conducting anthropological as well as archaeological research concerning the area's Machiguenga inhabitants and ancient archaeological remains.

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.

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.

Nicholas Alkemade

Juliane Koepcke German teenager who survived a 3 km fall after her flight broke up over the Peruvian Amazon.

Nicholas Shakespeare

Since 2000, Shakespeare has been Patron of the Anita Goulden Trust, helping children in the Peruvian city of Piura.

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.

Peruvian Flamenco

In Peruvian Flamenco men normally wear black trousers, black shirt, a red belt and a Fedora hat.

Peruvian literature

Also, it is relevant the work of new Peruvian poets as Jose Pancorvo, Jorge Eslava, Rossella di Paolo, Domingo de Ramos, Rocio Silva Santisteban, Odi González, Ana Varela, Rodrigo Quijano, Jorge Frisancho, Mariela Dreyfus, Gonzalo Portals, Rafael Espinosa, Lorenzo Helguero, José Carlos Yrigoyen, Montserrat Álvarez, Ana María García, Alberto Valdivia Baselli, Grecia Cáceres, Xavier Echarri, among others.

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.

Pirates in Callao

It tells the story of Alberto, a Peruvian kid who gets lost during a school trip to the Real Felipe Fortress in the seaport of Callao.

Princesses Nubiennes

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

Purussaurus

During the summer of 2005, a Franco-Peruvian expedition (the Fitzcarrald expedition) found new fossils of Purussaurus in the Peruvian Amazon (600 km from Lima).

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.

Roberto Dañino

He was awarded the Order of the Sun (Gran Cruz) in 2003, which is the highest honor bestowed on a Peruvian citizen.

SS Coya

In 1975 the Peruvian Corporation was nationalised and Coyas ownership passed to the state railway company ENAFER.

Stephen Negoesco

Among the players he mentored were former All-Americans John Doyle and Andy Atuegbu, as well as former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo.

Taraco

As with many place names in the Titicaca Basin, a corresponding Taraco District also exists on the Peruvian, northern side of the lake in the Huancané Province in Puno.

Tomás Guido

Guido then worked as a diplomat for San Martín during the effort to liberate Peru, he negotiated with the Spanish Viceroy at Miraflores before San Martín declared Peruvian Independence on July 28, 1821.

Vílchez

Oscar Vílchez (born 1986), Peruvian football attacking midfielder, currently playing for Alianza Lima

Villacorta

Eduardo Orrego Villacorta (1933–1994), Peruvian architect and politician in the early 1980s


see also

Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru

The album was compiled by David Byrne (of the Talking Heads), and was one of the first international releases of Afro-Peruvian music.

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.

Coba Coba

The 2009 release, off U.S. based, independent label, Cumbancha further explores the African roots of Afro-Peruvian music.

Demographics of Peru

The Afro-Peruvian population is concentrated mostly in coastal cities south of Lima, such as that of those found in the Ica Region, in cities like Cañete, Chincha, Ica, Nazca and Acarí in the border with the Arequipa Region.

Son de los Diablos

Much like the Diablada, the Son de los Diablos was heavily influenced by the Spanish Corpus Christi celebrations, it was predominantly practiced by an ethnic community (in this case the Afro-Peruvian community), and it was banned from religious celebrations by the Catholic Church in 1817.