Posted on December 11th, 2017 by Bill Weinberg and tagged Africa, Andes, Bolivia, coca leaf, DRC, Senegal, West Africa.
Among the coca-growing peasants of Bolivia's Yungas region (the country's prime legal cultivation zone) is a substantial Afro-Bolivian population—descendants of slaves who were brought in by the Spanish colonialists to work in the silver mines and haciendas centuries ago. Some have inter-married with the indigenous Aymara people of the Yungas, forming a distinctive Afro-Aymara culture.
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