This marked the start of a new genre in Latin American literature which blended words from the Afro-Caribbean culture into the Spanish verse of Puerto Rico.
The culture is a mixture of American- and Afro-Caribbean culture, with an influence from Danish colonial history.
She had taught conversational English to youngsters, lived in a poor neighborhood and taken a demanding course on Afro-Caribbean culture and history.
New Orleans was the main nexus between the Afro-Caribbean and African American cultures.
Nevisian culture has since the 17th century incorporated African, European and East Indian cultural elements, creating a distinct Afro-Caribbean culture.
He is a product of Cuba's strict Eastern European-style conservatory training, but engaged in the music of the Afro-Caribbean religious culture.
Matrifocality arose, Godelier said, in some Afro-Caribbean and African American cultures as a consequence of enslavement of thousands.
In 2008 she completed her second opera, Imoinda, with a libretto by Joan Anim-Addo about slavery and the beginning of the Afro-Caribbean culture.
Once again, she writes about characters who exist in the modern world but for whom the spirits and deities of West African and Afro-Caribbean cultures are alive and palpable.
Wherever it came from it has long been a part of Nicaragua's Afro-Caribbean culture.