Cuba hosts 23rd African and Afro-American Culture Conference

With the participation of representatives of culture, academia and diplomacy from more than a dozen countries, the 23rd International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture kicked off in Santiago de Cuba, an event that will last until April 16.

In the presence of Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, Cuban deputy prime minister, Zoe Creme, director of the Fernando Ortiz African Cultural Center, the sponsoring institution, said that the event will discuss African women and the Diaspora: their role in the family and society.

This imprint, visible in our people, was the result of a slave system and a voracious colonialism on this side of the Atlantic, she pointed out.

The meeting will discuss women, not as traditionally heard, the weaker sex, but as women who over the centuries have broken down barriers, gained space and imposed themselves in a patriarchal world, Creme added.

It will be an event to be updated on the realities of African women and Afro-descendants from the common and diverse, in order to face and seek solutions through the different branches of science, she expressed.

The event was attended by Beatriz Johnson, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Santiago; Manuel Falcon, governor, representatives of social and cultural institutions, and members of the African and Caribbean Diplomatic Corps accredited in the country.

The 23rd International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture becomes a space for strengthening the bonds of brotherhood between Cuba and the nations of the so-called black continent.