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Afro-Antillano

Por la encendida calle antillana
Va Tembandumba de la Quimbamba
--Rumba, macumba, candombe, bámbula---

Luis Palés Matos, Majestad Negra

Every place has its time, even a place like Puerto Rico. Perhaps that golden moment happened some time in 1930s, with the interest in Afro-American culture, in all things Negro. This is when a Puerto Rican poet Luis Palés Matos (1898-1959) proposed his Afro-Antillan poetics, mixing Spanish and Afro-Caribbean words in a rhythm that is certainly not from the Old World, depicting his Black queen, rosa de Uganda, in a triumphant dancing procession along the streets of any Antillean town, of all Antillean towns.