Monrovia, October 20, 2020 - The collective of the Cuban Embassy in Liberia greets the Day of Cuban Culture, with typical Cuban clothing, and singing with one voice, the notes of our National Anthem.
Today Cuba celebrates its cubania. It is a commemoration that goes beyond applauding the fact of being born on an island surrounded by sea, we celebrate our identity, our values and our universality.
This date is of transcendental importance for our people; aboriginal, Spanish and African blood runs through our veins. We are heirs to that tradition of struggle that allowed us to shake off all the yokes and embark on the difficult road to freedom that we continue to travel today.
We celebrate the birth of a great nation of free men and women, who have known how to fight for their national culture, for their identity, and which is the cradle of characters who have become important references for the world.
Cuban Culture Day is celebrated every October 20, as this is the date on which the notes of La Bayamesa or Himno de Bayamo (today's Cuban National Anthem) composed by Pedro (Perucho) Figueredo and sung for the first time in the city of Bayamo on that day in 1868, were first sung.
Our Hymn is a direct expression of our Cuba, and in its lyrics it contains many of our essences. The day for the National Culture Day is mainly dedicated to these historical events, so they represented and contributed also to the formation of an autochthonous culture and a nation's conscience. The emancipatory process was fundamental to crystallize the process of formation of this consciousness, during which inhabitants from all regions of the country mixed and so did their customs. Races, dialects, accents, words and traditions were intertwined.
Embacuba Liberia