Very close to Cartagena is located the village of San Basilio de Palenque, a community considered to be one of the last vestiges of Maroon resistance and the African culture that came to America. The resistance story is the story of Benkos Biohó, a runaway slave from Guinea who along with other maroons from Senegal, Angola and Nigeria, founded San Basilio de Palenque. This is the story of ...