MONTEVIDEO, Feb 13 — As a little boy, Cesar Pintos — now 86 — played “drums” with his friends in the streets of Montevideo’s black-majority neighbourhoods, beating tin cans with twigs to ancestral rhythms brought to Uruguay by enslaved Africans.
The group, named Sarabanda, participates to this day in “Las Llamadas” — an annual parade hailed as a celebration of African heritage and the highlight of Montevideo’s carnival. In a two-day carnival competition watched by thousands, they beat out candombe tunes on wood and animal skin drums as the performers dance.Today, Las Llamadas is a celebration for all race groups — in fact many comparsas are majority white.Montevideo was an important entry port for enslaved Africans brought by Europeans to South America from the second half of the 18th century.
When slavery was abolished in Uruguay in the mid 19th century, AfroUruguayans created mutual aid societies, whose lively meetings gave birth to candombe.“The drum for us is fundamental... It allows us to protest when we need to make ourselves heard, and also to have fun,” Alfonso Pintos, the 59-year-old son of Cesar, told AFP.
It is a shrinking ratio of the population — about 8.0 per cent compared to more than a third 200 years ago.
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