Afro-Native Poetry and Rhymes
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AfroN8V (Afro-Native) is a Miami, Florida born and bred MC, Spoken Word Poet, Socio-Cultural Historical Independent Scholar, of African-Native (South) American heritage. He was exposed to the African Diaspora at an early age through his own Afro-Colombian heritage and growing up in Miami Gardens, FL (Florida’s most Black populated city), where he grew up alongside African-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Central Americans, and Afro-South Americans. He began deep historical research on the African Diaspora, with a concentration on Afro-Colombia as a teenager, and then went to take classes in the African New World Studies program at FIU, although he did not pursue the degree beyond taking a few classes. Instead he took the independent scholar route, and left the program to go live in Colombia for four months at the age of 19, specifically exploring Afro-Colombia and his heritage from the Pacific Coast to the Caribbean Coast as this was not covered in any college program in the United States. There was no school that ever taught him his story, so he sought it himself. This trip changed his life forever. His poetry is written in standard English, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), Afro-Caribbean English-based Creole – Jamaican Rastafari Patois, and Afro-Colombian Pacific Coastal Spanish. He is a student of Afro-Creole Language linguistics, Afro-Colombian history, African World History, Cultural Anthropology, and Sociology. His Spoken Word Poetry covers social affairs concerning his African and Indigenous descended people in both English and Spanish. Although there’s a resemblance to the Jamaican flag in the colors, the front cover is actually the flag of his ancestral hometown of Barbacoas, Nariño on the Pacific Coast of Colombia and a proud symbol of his ancestry. The green symbolizes the rainforest lushness of Barbacoas as it’s situated in the Chocó rainforest, the yellow is for the history of it being a colonial gold-min
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