In the sixteenth century, a multitude of African slaves were brought to Mexico to work in mining, livestock, and fishing. By the seventeenth century, the Afro-Mexican population exceeded that of Spaniards in the region. Today, nearly two million Mexicans are of African descent; survive concentrated in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca; however, they remain deprived of constitutional rights.


This project aims at giving visibility and voice to these deconstructed and erased communities in order to place them again not only, in the visual map of the African diaspora, but also in the History of Mexico, and to reveal the importance and value of the intangible cultural patrimony that they carry and protect.