Ancestral plantings. Knowledge in the AfroPacific

In this text, Juan García Salazar and Catherine Walsh draw from extend portions of their conversations begun a number years ago about the sowing re-sowing knowledge life in communities Colombo-Ecuadorian region-territory AfroPacific. The conversation invokes thinks with third voice, that Grandfather Zenón, considered all those beings who reside territory. It is Zenón’s voice expresses brings to words, teachings, collective memory elders past present, and, so doing, continues ancestral plantings, giving meaning force philosophies, knowledges, persist, resist, re-exist AfroPacific beyond these present times.