U.S. Department of State: World Summit Celebrates People of African Descent in the Americas 
About the Author: Zakiya Carr-Johnson serves as Senior Advisor to the Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inclusion Unit in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
A warm “Buiti achuluruni” was the Garifuna welcome for the more than 1,000 participants who traveled to La Ceiba, Honduras, to…
![Participants pose for a photo at the first World Summit of African Descendants in La Ceiba, Honduras, August 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](http://blogs.state.gov/images/Dipnote/behind_the_scenes/2011_0824_African_Descendants_m.jpg)
