Dikenga

“To stand upon this sign meant that a person was fully capable of governing people, that he knew the nature of the world, that he had mastered the meaning of life and death.”

—Fu-Kiau Bunseki

Juan Usera teaching the gesture Kina or Wienga as part of the Bomba and Plena folk dance at the Taller Boricua, Spanish Harlem, New York City, 1999. (Photo by Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz.) Read the article “Kongo Atlantic Body Language” by Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz.