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Cuba is a primarily Catholic country. Another large religion in Cuba is Santería. Santería is a blend of Catholicism and traditional Yoruba religions. When African slaves first arrived in Cuba during the 16th century, they were taught a few simple prayers and were baptised by the Spanish. The slaves combined this limited form of Catholicism ...
Pages in category "Culture of Cuba" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Although still a developing country itself, Cuba supported African, Latin American and Asian countries in the fields of military development, health and education. [179] These "overseas adventures" not only irritated the United States but were also quite often a source of dispute with Cuba's ostensible allies in the Kremlin. [180]
Fernando Ortiz Fernández (16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous Cuban culture.Ortiz has been called the "third discoverer of Cuba", after Christopher Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt.
The first enslaved Africans arrived in Cuba in 1511, [400] although the largest numbers came in the 19th century. [401] Cuba continued to receive new slaves until at least 1860, [400] with full emancipation occurring in 1886. [402] In total, between 702,000 and 1 million enslaved Africans were brought to Cuba. [403] Most came from a stretch of ...
The Romans were said to have called all the Greeks after the name of the first group they met, [citation needed] although the location of that tribe varies between Epirus – Aristotle recorded that the Illyrians used the name for Dorian Epiriots from their native name Graii [219] [220] – and Cumae – Eusebius of Caesarea dated its ...
Most came from a stretch of Western Africa between the modern nation-states of Guinea and Angola. [12] The great plurality were Yoruba, from the area encompassed by the modern states of Nigeria and Benin; [13] the Yoruba had a shared language and culture but were divided among different states. [14]
Afro-Cubans (Spanish: Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements in Cuba associated with this community, and the combining of native African and other cultural elements found in Cuban society, such as race, religion, music, language, the arts and class culture.