Kwame Selikem Okatakyie on Afro- Hondurans of Houndras.
GReetings , My name is Kwame Selikem Okatakyie am from Ghana am also from a mixed tribal heritage mixed with Ashanti , Nzema , Ewe ,Kwahu , Brong , Denkyira and Mamprusi am a young African researcher who explore more about Africans and Africans in the Diaspora
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Afro- Houndurans are direct descendants of Africans enslaved in Honduras the country Honduras is located in Central America, they speak Spanish, Creole and Garifuna language. According to Afro- Honduran Anthropologist the first Africans arrived around 1540 by the early 1600s many of Africans were brought and had escaped due to intermarriages they were mixed with Spanish and Indian the second group were brought by the British colonist they came to the Bay of Hounduras between 1600s and 1700s and worked on the Sugar plantation and natural resources many were also mixed with Miskitu ancestry, The Garifuna resisted against the British in 1797 over 5, 000 were transported on merchant ships many later moved to the mainland and allied with Spain, they formed their own army and went ahead attacked the European pirates seeking for their own independence which was a revolt other Afro- Hondurans arrived during the colonial era when they were freed they migrated to the Bay Islands in the 1840s and from the 1920 the Bay Islands creoles began to abandon the English language, agricultural lifestyle as well. They were captured as slaves from Angola, Gambia, Senegal, Benin, Sierra leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Congo including Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, some parts of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and other parts of the Central and East Africa along with ethnic groups they came such as Kanuri, Hausa, Temne, Fulani, Mandinka, Akan, Ewe, Tikar, Vai, Kpelle, Jola, Wolof, Igbo, Yoruba, Mina, Adja, Fon, Mandinka and other ethnic groups. The first group of Enslaved Africans were captured and brought to Present day Honduras, they mainly used silver mines in the late 1600s and run away the Europeans took over the Island of St. Vincent and Dominica in the 18th Century it is believed there were intermarriages between Enslaved Africans and Arawak, Sambo is a traditional dance of the Afro- Brazilians it is also performed by the Afro- Houndurans Garifunas and the traditional dish from West Africa called Fufu was brought from West Africa to Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, some parts of Ecuador, Paraguay and Honduras for Afro- Puerto Ricans it is known as Mofongo for the Afro- Houndurans who belong to the Garifuna tribe is referred as Machus it is prepared by boiling plantains they rised it and pound it with a spistle which is pounded in a mortar among Garifuna community in Honduras, they performed a dance called Punta it originated from some where in the West Africa regions it was brought and introduced during Trans- Atlantic Slavery in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua they sing songs in languages such as Creole, Spanish, Garifuna the Punta music has a strong African influence they used instruments such as Aerophones, Scrapers, Xylophone, Chaka, Calabash rattles, Trumpet, Drums , Chumba and Hunghungun is a rhythm and circular dances combined with the Punta. The Garifuna of Hounduras and their revolution , they are an admixed People of the Indeigneous Carribeans and Africans they fought aganist caste and Cultural injustice for many decades after the 2009 Coup d'etat in Hounduras the Garifuna' s role in the U.S. Invasions in Latin America and the Carribean since the 1800s the United States had invaded across Latin America and the Carribean in an effort to control their resources, natural and human throughout the regions. Alvarez was considered to be an Afro- Hounduran leader who led Blacks and fought for justice and raised the voices of Blacks in Honduras against White Supremacy and racism followed by Dr. Sebi he was the first Afro- Honduran who was the Osanyin herbal healer and he was arrested at the airport in Honduras because he was in possession of $ 37, 00 it is said he earned his money from his great works which is Self health holistic programs which included celebrity patients such ad Erykah Badu and left eye of TLC and ot is claimed he was assinated by the Honduran government he passed away on the Yoruba Calendar which says the Ogun 6, 10058 which is August 6, 2016. Africans including the nobleman Nuflo de Olano discovered the Pacific in 1513, Spanish settled in La ensanadasa and in 1524 Cristobal de Olid established the first Spanish settlement near Tela.