ABSTRACT
Afro-Cuban people are of Black African ancestry, mostly West African, and the term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to originate from this community and the combining of native African and other cultural elements found in Cuban society, such as race, religion, art, music and language. There has been an ongoing racial oppression toward the Black Cubans from the White Cubans. The legacies of enslavement and anti-Blackness continued in the decades leading up to the movement’s inception in the early 20th century and still affect Black Cubans now. The music of Yoruba people is heavily associated with religion, which in Cuba has evolved into the religion known as Santería. Yoruba culture and sounds have had a lasting, profound impact on the music in Cuba. Afrocubanismo also highly influenced geometric abstraction in Cuban art.
