Ancestors: giants from the past

Cuba	Lydia Cabrera: ethnologist, author of numerous books on AfroCuban religions	Walterio Carbonell, historian, author of "Cómo se forjó la cultura nacional"
	Nicolas Guillén: poet	Leida Oquendo: anthropologist
	Fernando Ortiz: ethnologist, author of numerous books on Afrocuban culture	Reynaldo Peñalber, Havana: journalist - 1999

Caribbean	Eugene Godfried, Guantanamo & Curacao: journalist, community activist, radio broadcaster

US	Lorenzo Turner, 1890-1972: linguist and africanist, studied Gullah as well as languages in Cuba, Brazil, and Africa	Robert F.Williams, 1925-1996: revolutionary, first president of the Republic of New Africa, ran Radio Free Dixie from Havana

Africa	Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) 1941 - 1998: revolutionary, buried in Guinee, strong ties to Cuba