Cultural rights of Afro-Colombian communities in the Department of Magdalena

Abstract

In Colombia, culture is a right enshrined in the Political Constitution, the indigenous and Afro-Colombian population are sheltered under this constitutional and legal recognition, so the duty to safeguard their integrity is not limited to the physical or territorial, but to reestablish, rebuild, promote and protect the intangible values ​​that surround their traditions, which were threatened and almost destroyed due to the internal armed conflict, which also hit the department of Magdalena.

The armed conflict generated in the indigenous groups a significant loss of their traditions, but around them different protection and recovery actions have been deployed that are quite visible in the Magdalena, however, the Afro-Colombians - blacks, palanqueros and Raizales - being an ethnic community Like the indigenous, it is completely unknown what type of reconstruction exercises are carried out for them, since today they present a serious problem of loss of cultural identity, which motivated the research project, aimed at determining what measures have been taken by the Colombian government at the national, departmental and district levels to guarantee the cultural rights of the Afro-Colombian peoples of Magdalena, for this a research approach will be implemented where qualitative and quantitative data converge applying field research techniques, such as the survey and the interview for Afro associations of the department of Magdalena, hoping to obtain results that clarify the panorama regarding the implementation of guarantees for the effective enjoyment of the cultural rights of the Afro community in Magdalena.