They say it came first from Africa, carried.... : Quote by Junot Díaz

“ They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World. ”

Junot Díaz
  • From : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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