Voicing Afro-Cubaneity

: Afro-Cuban citizenship, poetics and history-making in Havana today

Abstract

What is Afro-Cubaneity? What is it like to be Afro-Cuban today in Havana? This thesis has an autoethnographic character and departs from the intersection or the link between Afro-Cuban Lucumí Òrìṣà/Ifá and Afro-Cuban rap practices to make an intervention in Afro- Cuban, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-diasporic, and global hiphop studies. It does so by proposing that we consider the possibility of Afro-Cuban anthropology to answer those initial questions as an experiment. Throughout its chapters, the thesis follows Afro-Cuban philosophical logic and various Afro-Cuban Ifá divination figures as conceptual frameworks to operationalise the topics and arguments of the chapters.

Date of Award	30 Nov 2022
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	University of St Andrews
Supervisor	Huon Wardle (Supervisor)