Ministry of Culture of Panama interviews Prof. Melva Lowe de Gooding on the contributions of the people of African decent as part of the bi-centennial celebration of Panama’s independence from Spain. Prof. Goodin was interviewed by Opal de Ycaza on May 28th. This informative interview is in Spanish and discusses our ancestry and the arrival…
Melva Lowe de Goodin, promoter of Afro-Panamanian culture, offers a review, from her perspective, of the legacy of the anti-apartheid activist.
As a human rights activist for the Afro-descendant population of Panama, I am extremely annoyed by the title and focus of the article that Dr. Xavier Sáez-Llorens wrote in the newspaper La Prensa on Sunday, March 10, 2019. When I saw the title A Little Africa in Panama, I was attracted because I thought immigrants…
INTERVIEWER: Where were you born and what was it like during that time? Goodin: I was born in what was known as the Panama Canal Zone, the sector of the Canal Zone that was designated for the West Indian immigrants. I was born in a town that was called Red Tank that no longer exists. It’s not…
