El Conejo Engañoso: A place-making oral tradition of the youth of San Basilio de Palenque & La Bonga

This article examines how youth in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, use storytelling and audiovisual production as strategies of memory, resistance, and identity. Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement, we analyze El Conejo Engañoso (The Trickster Rabbit), a community-made video that reanimates displaced oral traditions of La Bonga. We show how the film’s cultural narratives negotiate belonging across displacement, ancestral memory, and intergenerational dialogue. By situating the video within Afro-diasporic folklore and the Black radical imagination, we highlight how storytelling operates as an intercultural communication practice. In doing so, the article reframes intercultural communication as extending beyond dialogue across cultures to include relationships with land, ancestry, and non-human actors.