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AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange “Uprooted”

AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange “Uprooted”

Credit: Photo Courtesy Juan Mejia

Juan Mejia Botero

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Displaced since 1996, Noris and her family have been living in the refugee shelter of Villa España on the outskirts of Quibdó, Colombia, a growing city on the Pacific Coast that is home to thousands of Afro-Colombians. This film of Noris’s captivating story lends a human face to what is an often invisible and dehumanized population.