Journalist and Writer. Graduate in Social Communication, Doctorate in History and Postdoctoral Degree in Anthropology.

Founder of the New Maiombe Council;
Director and Editor of Ediciones Maiombe;
President of the Association of Traditional Bantu Culture (A.C.T.B);
Member of the Spanish Association of Africanists;
Cultural Ambassador of the Kunalumbo Cabildo.

Ralph Alpizar holds the rank of nfumu-nganga, the highest hierarchy within Palo Monte Mayombe. He has received other consecrations among the Bakongo of the North of the Republic of Angola and the Republic of the Congo.