Re: "Kenyan Matatu Drivers"

1. How are Matatu drivers treated in his experience with the BBC? 

Even though they offer an important service to the entire community, Matatu drivers are treated like evildoers. The police extorted them and the people they were working for revealed to them the derogatory opinion that some foreigns have about kenyas. At least, in the end, they enjoyed that journey thanks to the presence of professor Kylo.      

2. Do Barranquilleros have the same negative opinion of mototaxistas as the Kenyans have of matatu drivers?

Yes, we have. Here in Barranquilla it is really difficult to distinguish a mototaxista from a thief because both of them use motorcycles and have to wear a helmet, so we create the idea of mototaxistas as a dangerous subculture. Furthermore, some of them have bad habits and obstruct the traffic, fact that supports the negative stereotype that most of barranquilleros have about them. 

Re: "Afrocolombians"

Once, the whole Latin America made part of an interesting cultural event called miscegenation, so we became the owners of a colourful and exquisite ethnicity. All of us have running through the veins the blood of people from very distant lands, including Mother Africa.

We are in debt with the Afro culture not just because we have treated them like a simply tool but because they are the ground of the most part of traditions we show to world proudly as colombian's representative folklore. Nowadays it's absurd that any person could think about inferiority or discrimination, specially people from a country that proclaims freedom and fraternity.