Yoruba and Lucumi

Globalization is looked at in the use of the word "Lucumi" in Cuba to describe the various inhabitants of African descent. When asked his background, No Remigio replied "born African descent, nationality Lucumi." The idea idea of Lucumi is in itself global. It tells us of the movement of Africans into the Americas, specifically Cuba. The primary national identity given to or attached to slaves was Lucumi. In a documentary record Lopez Valdes "counted no less than 137 variations" such as lucumi egguado, lucumi ifa, lucumi zeza and the list continues. The word Lucumi also served to cover "African ethnic or cultural content." The term "Yoruba" often discussed by the Samuel Johnson had some if not most of the same functioning as the later.