 Abaqua is a Cuban mutual aid society. It was created by Africans for their children gradually through the 1700s and early 1800s in Havana. Abaqua in Cuba is a variation of the West African Ekpe, leopard society. What is Ekpe? Ekpe is a system of community justice to represent the autonomy and voice of each group in this region of Africa that had no empires. Each community had its own leopard society and meeting hall.