Alfonso David Múnera Cavadía (Colombia) is a historian, researcher, lecturer and former ambassador. In 2010, he was named as one of 12 renowned afro Colombians. Is the author of El fracaso de la nación. Región, clase y raza en el Caribe colombiano, 1717-1821 and Fronteras imaginadas. La construcción de las razas y la geografía en el Caribe colombiano, two fundamental books of Colombian history. He presents his book La independencia de Colombia: Olvidos y ficciones. Cartagena de Indias (1580-1821), in conversation with Gustavo Bell, on which he looks again at the role that Cartagena de Indias and it inhabitants played within the independence processes, given voice to new protagonists and readings for a historical analysis vital to understand the past and the present of the country.