In this Excerpt, Esquina discusses the significance of her Congo name “Revellin.”

In this Excerpt, Esquina discusses the significance of her Congo name “Revellin.”
In this excerpt, Esquina discusses the differences between the costumes of the Congo community of Portobelo and other Congo communities in Panama.
In this excerpt, Esquina recounts watching her father, Vicente Esquina, get dressed as the Congo King and accompanying him to the palenque/palacio to play Congo. Memories of her father’s participation as king mark some of Esquina’s earliest recollections of the tradition.