Volume 4. SONG OF THE JOURNEY (Son del viaje)

Travels are an important part of the African peoples who arrived in America, leaving their homelands far behind. Their cultures reborn in Colombia, these Black inhabitants of Colombian coasts and islands have gone through many migrations over the centuries. In this chapter we hear songs about journeys: the one which takes us far from home and the other one which everyone must undertake: to the beyond. One woman sings an alabao (song of praise) and another an arrullo (lullaby). Songs and stories, now found in the cities, which conserve echoes and memories of the past and of the lands they were uprooted from. How do you reconstruct an identity and culture associated with a place you had to abandon ?