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Mildred Europa Taylor is a writer and content creator. She loves writing about health and women s issues in Africa and the African diaspora.
Juan José Nieto Gil was the first president of African descent in Colombia. Photo: Banrepcultural - flickr
“Colombia must admit that there are racial problems in the country and throughout Latin America”, Barack Obama said at a business conference in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, in May 2017. Some years prior to the conference, Obama had been elected as the first Black president of the U.S. While the U.S. celebrated this feat and its citizens showed how proud they were to have their first Black leader, Colombians had kept their first Black leader hidden for decades.