Publisher's Synopsis
The figure of the Abakuá or the one also known as ñáñigo, has been a long-standing character in Havana's andurrial. From all proposed to the roundup, by the hand of the colonial authorities, and then by those of the quasi-republic, which failed to reduce it, much less disappear it. Afro-descendant in majority, managed to survive in the mystery and subuse of secret societies. Today they deserve recognition in time; so its traditional historiography requires an objective review; to add that he has assumed his afromistic dependence as definitive and almost unique; and we do not take for granted the contribution and Creole cultural transfer, of wide range and nuances; much profane, but promoted and carried out in its neat and rich socio-cultural seat in the Havana neighborhood. As were those first generations, more than two centuries ago, of initiates. Reconstructing history requires tracing stages where reminiscences remain; those that, because they are disastrous, eliminate them, and incorporate new appreciations for an objective historiography, attached to the facts, ...in fact, very scarce.
