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in the artist's social reality, then the Latino African should be drawn into the space of recognition and artistic design. As the saying goes in Latin America: “Lo que ojos no ven, el corazón no siente.” [“What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t feel”].
With the previous thoughts in mind, I have posited that the presence of both the Latino in Africa and the African in Latin America merits inclusion in the artistic creation of a true perspective of the African Latino image, not as subsets of each other but as correlative ethnic groups. These were the guidelines of the first three essays, which led to the exposition in the fourth and final essay on the “Tabom” of Ghana, descendants of Afro Brazilians who in 1836 lay claim to their ethnic roots as a rationale for the justifiable reassimilation of black Latins into the folds of native African cultures.