"Uruguay's Black community, long in the shadows
of the country's cultural and political mainstream, is enjoying an awakening as its African roots are celebrated in a
pulsating drum Carnival parade," Kevin Gray writes for Reuters.
"On the
first Thursday and Friday of February, thousands of people crowd the capital Montevideo's traditionally Black neighborhood
as costumed drummers and dancers kick off a street fiesta known as the 'llamadas' -- Spanish for 'calls.'
"It is a tribute to the once-ignored
African roots of this small South American nation tucked between Argentina and Brazil."
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