It’s Time the World Knew About Coqui

My prologue for the book Abrazar la Tierra.

I made two trips to Colombia’s Chocó region on the Pacific Coast in the years prior to the pandemic. The first was for an assignment and I bounced around from village to village south of Nuqui, including, very briefly, the town of Coqui, an Afro-indigenous community with strong culinary connections. The return trip would be spent entirely in Coqui, wher…