Launched in January 1978, the journal Africa is an international and bilingual periodical of the Center for African Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (CEA FFLCH-USP). The journal Africa, published annually and on a rolling basis, contributes to the dissemination of studies about the African continent. It accepts original works, reviews, essays, reading notes, articles, or news related to African, Afro-Brazilian, and the broader Black diaspora realities, in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations, geopolitics, history, literature, music, and health.
Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
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THE MAINTENANCE OF STATE REPRESENTATION IN THE PROVINCE IN AN ELECTORAL CONTEXT AND DIFFUSED POWERS IN MOZAMBIQUE: What Does It Mean For Vertical Accountability?
Criticism of the existence of state representation in the province was based on the overlapping of powers that affected various sectors of provincial democracy, among which the process of holding elected governors accountable stands out. In fact, the actions of these actors were confused and made it difficult to distinguish which body was responsible for accountability in the province. This situation was aggravated by the context of the election of the governor, who arrived in the province without the citizens knowing him, since his election took place simultaneously with multiple actors. However, this almost changed in the second legislature when the President, Daniel Chapo, promised to reduce the role of state representation in the province, which would make it possible to distinguish the figure who governs and hold them accountable, but the promise did not go ahead. This study arises from this inertia and seeks to understand the exercise of vertical accountability in a context of persistent scenarios that are critical to its effectiveness. To this end, we used a qualitative approach and concluded that the maintenance of state representation along the same lines as in the past conditions the effectiveness of accountability in the province.
Copyright (c) 2025 António Bai Sitoe Júnior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The musical albums of Baco Exu do Blues and Djonga: readings
In this article, we propose a comparative analysis of the clichés on the conceptual album covers of artists Baco Exu do Blues and Djonga in light of the concept of intericonicity developed by Jean-Jacques Courtine, who proposes it as a way of describing and interpreting images as coreferential textualities, that is, as material constructions always linked to other images, meaning that one image can refer to another already seen, establishing a network of relationships. Despite the regional differences between the rappers – Baco, from Salvador, Bahia, and Djonga, from Ipatinga, Minas Gerais – their albums – Esú (Baco, 2017) and Ladrão (Djonga, 2019) – represent pivotal stages in their artistic trajectories. These albums address themes such as racism, marginalized communities, and ancestry, consolidating an integrated poetic and musical language that articulates social critique and the expression of Black identity.
Baco Exu do Blues, Djonga, Periphery, Social Criticism, Intericonicity.
Copyright (c) 2025 Francisco Cláudio Alves Marques, Vinicius Paes Soares de Brito https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
A Mais Recôndita Memória dos Homens de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
O estudo analisa o romance A Mais Recôndita Memória dos Homens (2023), de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, destacando sua construção híbrida que articula o romance de formação e o pós-moderno, em ruptura com o romance autobiográfico. Evidenciam-se influências de Roberto Bolaño e Yambo Ouologuem, bem como a centralidade da intertextualidade nos debates sobre colonialismo, identidade e autoria na literatura africana contemporânea. De natureza bibliográfica e abordagem qualitativa interpretativista, fundamenta-se em Dilthey (1985), Moretti (2000), Lejeune (2008), Hutcheon (1989) e Genette (1972). Conclui-se que a obra transcende a perspectiva africana ao problematizar questões universais, consolidando-se como exemplo do diálogo entre tradição formativa e experimentação pós-moderna.
Literatura Africana contemporânea; narrativa híbrida; autoria; intertextualidade
Copyright (c) 2025 Margarete Afonso Borges Coêlho https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Overview of Lgbtqi+ Literature in Cape Verde
This article analyzes the emerging Cape Verdean LGBTQI+ literature through the works O eleito do sol (1992) by Arménio Vieira, Estátuas de Sal (2003) by Evel Rocha, Na Roda do Sexo (2009) by Fernando Monteiro, Marginais (2010) by Evel Rocha, Outros sais na beira mar (2010) by Filinto Elísio, and Múrcia (2017) by Eugénio Inocéncio/Dududa. Employing a queer epistemology, I seek to understand whether these works function as gender technologies that reinforce normativity, hierarchies, exclusions, and violence, or whether, on the contrary, they denaturalize, challenge, or problematize the violence, exclusions, and hierarchies of the Cape Verdean sexual order
Copyright (c) 2025 Helder Thiago Maia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
FREE MUSIC: AMOS TUTUOLA AND THE SUBJECTIVITY OF THE ENTITY-INSTRUMENT
Abstract: Amos Tutuola (1920-1997) was a pioneering Nigerian writer who wrote in English but grounded his narratives in the Yoruba oral tradition. This article investigates the concept of "entity-instrument" in the works The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), demonstrating how musical instruments become subjects endowed with agency and vital force. The analysis reveals that in Tutuola's narratives, musical elements emerge as living entities with transformative and revolutionary power, echoing African epistemologies also present in the works of Bunseki Fu-kiau, Malidoma Somé, and K. C. Anyanwu, among others. The work establishes structural parallels between African folk tales and traditional music of the continent. Finally, it proposes "complementarity" as a field of interconnected forces within a sonic aesthetic continuum that serves communal balance.
Amos Tutuola; Ente-instrumento; Música africana; Oralidade; Filosofia africana
Copyright (c) 2025 Luiza Almeida https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Entre Arquivos e Imagens: Descolonizando as (In)Visibilidades Africanas
O número 45 da revista África apresenta o dossiê temático intitulado “Das (in)visibilidades africanas: objetos, imagens e arquivos”, que reúne resultados de pesquisas sobre a história dos objetos africanos e das imagens produzidas em contextos coloniais. Organizado pelo grupo de pesquisa História da África & História Visual, o dossiê reúne quatro artigos, um relato de pesquisa e uma entrevista, abordando questões teóricas, metodológicas e deontológicas envolvidas na investigação desses materiais em arquivos e museus. Ao mesmo tempo, o número traz outros artigos que ampliam o debate, como análises sobre os investimentos brasileiros nos PALOP, a participação das mulheres africanas nos movimentos sociais, a produção literária em Angola, entre outras temáticas.
Copyright (c) 2024 Marina de Mello e Souza, Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Decolonizar o museu – programa de desordem absoluta.
A resenha analisa o livro "Decolonizar o museu – programa de desordem absoluta", de Françoise Vergès, publicado no Brasil em 2023. O texto discute as implicações do termo "decolonizar", contrastando-o com "descolonizar", e reflete sobre a proposta radical da autora para a transformação dos museus. Vergès argumenta que a descolonização dos museus não pode ser apenas um ajuste institucional ou curatorial, mas deve fazer parte de um programa político amplo que inclua a superação do racismo, do imperialismo e do patriarcado. Destaca-se a crítica da autora à apropriação institucional do discurso decolonial sem mudanças estruturais reais, e sua defesa de um "programa de desordem absoluta", inspirado em Frantz Fanon. Além disso, comenta-se a relação entre museus, economia e gestão, questionando a viabilidade da descolonização no contexto do capitalismo global. Ao final, destacamos as propostas alternativas de Vergès para um "pós-museu" e sua visão crítica sobre o uso da linguagem decolonial em narrativas institucionais.
Copyright (c) 2024 Silvio Marcus Souza Correa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Dirty gossip – misconceptions on Africa and slave history in Njinga, Queen of Angola (2013) by Sérgio Graciano
Queen Njinga was one of Africa's most important political leaders in the 17th century. She fought hard to halt the Portuguese conquest of Angola and the slave trade. Angola produced the film Njinga, Queen of Angola, 2013, as its first highbudget and exclusively national production. We argue that the film is a shallow and stereotyped misrepresentation of Africa and slave history, passing on the dirty gossip of Western colonial historiography. We analyze the falsification of the Ndogno-kingdom’s political organization, ignores slavery, trivializes the conflicts, and obfuscates Njinga’s leadership and resistance against the brutality of enslavement.
Queen Njinga, slave history, misrepresentation of Africa, contemporary cinema, Angola
Copyright (c) 2025 Carolin Overhoff Ferreira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Dans cette interview, l'historienne Nadia Vargaftig examine les enjeux des recherches sur les collections africaines dans les musées européens. Elle souligne l'importance d'une nouvelle approche de l'histoire de l'art, particulièrement dans le contexte postcolonial et la restitution des objets africains. Vargaftig discute des expositions universelles et coloniales, du rôle des artistes dans ces événements, et de la manière dont la photographie a été utilisée dans la construction de discours impérialistes. Elle aborde également ses recherches actuelles sur les collections africaines dans les musées portugais et les défis liés à l'accès aux informations sur ces collections. La question de la restitution des objets d'art est centrale dans ses travaux, ainsi que l'importance d'une muséologie renouvelée, sensible aux enjeux contemporains.
Copyright (c) 2024 Sílvio Marcus de Souza Correa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The photographer in the archive: reflections on the (in)visibility of the photographic apparatus in colonial collections
The photographical archive of German Colonial Society has more than 50 thousand images. Clearly, it is a rich archive in different themes for the Visual History researcher, especially for those who choose to study contemporary colonialism. In this paper, our aim is to think about two central figures that are sometimes overlooked: the photographer and the photographic apparatus. Although photography was constructed at the end of the 19th century as an objective and purely technical instrument, it was an important element in framing an imperial world view. However, the camera and the subject who operates it are still sometimes invisible in historiographical discussions and analyses of colonial archives. We therefore propose reflections on this relationship using photographs from the archive that show the apparatus behind their production.
Copyright (c) 2024 Naiara Krachenski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Cinema networks in Angola: “A past that deserves a better present”
This article is a report on the doctoral research in History that is being developed at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in the exchange research phase at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, under the guidance of professors Dr. Alexandre Busko Valim and Dr. Silvio Marcus de Souza Correa, with supervision abroad carried out by Dr. Maria do Carmo Piçarra. Part of the title of this text is a direct inspiration from the work of José Mena Abrantes “Cinema Angolano. Um passado a merecer melhor presente” published by the Cinemateca Nacional de Angola, in Luanda in 1986. The research aims to link cinema and the history of Angola, analyzing through Angolan cinematography to establish a set of networks between the country's cinematography and its transnational contexts with other countries on the African continent.
Copyright (c) 2024 Renata Dariva Costa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Apresentação - Revista África (número 44)
A Revista África inaugura seu novo formato de publicação em fluxo contínuo com a edição número 44. Neste número, cinco artigos abordam temas diversos, convergindo na crítica às formas de conhecimento hegemônicas do ocidente. O artigo de Ricardo Aguinelo Aquixinco Gomes Cá discute o colonialismo e o racismo através de Frantz Fanon, enquanto Mamim Alfissene Baciro Baldé explora o "racismo epistêmico" e a importância de perspectivas africanas endógenas. Carla Ribeiro analisa o turismo afrodiaspórico no Senegal, destacando a busca por identidades perdidas pela diáspora. Monique dos Anjos investiga o racismo acadêmico, combinando experiências pessoais e acadêmicas para expor o racismo e a misoginia. Por fim, Silas Fiorotti critica as narrativas oficiais nos manuais escolares moçambicanos, apresentando uma visão mais complexa da história do país. Esses textos desafiam discursos hegemônicos, promovendo uma discussão sobre dominação e resistência às ordens estabelecidas.
Copyright (c) 2023 Marina de Mello e Souza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
As histórias de uma imagem descontextualizada: Produção e circuitos sociais de fotografias no contexto colonial português
O artigo explora as histórias de uma fotografia encontrada em uma “feira de velharias”, em Lisboa. Semelhante a muitas outras espalhadas pelo chão, caixotes e pastas organizadoras, a imagem fotográfica ganhou uma história específica do vendedor a fim de conseguir um comprador para aquela cena visual produzida em Angola. O contraste entre a narração e o fato visual apresentavam tanto as diversas camadas que integravam o documento fotográfico, quanto como uma fotografia descontextualizada pode ser inserida em diferentes cenários discursivos. Portanto, o trabalho busca analisar um conjunto de questões históricas através dessa imagem fotográfica de modo a identificar como as imagens visuais fogem ao controle e podem ganhar sentidos muito diferentes daqueles que foram agenciadas pelos aparelhos de propaganda governamentais.
Copyright (c) 2024 Marcus Vinicius de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The African Collection of the National Museum (1818-1955): A Strategy for the Decolonization of Museum Objects
The article reports on a research and curation experience with the Africana collection of the National Museum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The collection was destroyed by a fire that devastated the institution in 2018. The article describes the constitution of the collection, and a project to modernize the Africa Room at the long duration exhibition of the Museum. The project points to a reflection on the urgency of “decolonizing” museum collections, as well as their archives and exhibitions. Finally, the article aims to open a dialogue about museum practices, in particular about the role of historians in research on collections.
Copyright (c) 2024 Mariza de Carvalho Soares https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Makeba’s earring: from Kota reliquary guardian figure to the panafrican sign
During the Banlieues Bleues Jazz Festival (1989), in Saint-Denis (France), photographer Guy Le Querrec immortalized a meeting between Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) and Nina Simone (1933-2003). If the Studium of photography (Barthes, 1980) is a kiss that seals the meeting of two friends, two divas of the black music and Pan-Africanism, her Punctum is Makeba's earring. The South African singer's earring reproduces in miniature the Kota reliquary guardian figure. De-sacralized, the figure became an ear ornament, no longer a funerary figure but an African sign. Based on the reproduction and social circulation of the image of the figure of a Kota reliquary on different material supports, this article analyzes the inscription of this iconic figure in a pan-African aesthetic, to which the South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba contributed greatly.
Copyright (c) 2024 Silvio Marcus De Souza Correa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Avaliando um Legado Histórico: Memória Popular e Narrativa Política Atual no Caso de Samora Moisés Machel
О legado de Samora Machel, líder da luta pela independência em Moçambique e primeiro presidente do país entre 1975 e a sua morte em 1986, é composto por dois elementos que se sobrepõem: a forma como ele é lembrado na memória popular moçambicana, em contraste com a análise histórica mais cuidadosa do impacto das políticas dele, tal internas como externas. O artigo argumenta que o conceito de “legado histórico” fica inadequadamente teorizado, e que atores políticos podem deixar legados significativos, mesmo que não sejam geralmente reconhecidos como grandes figuras. No caso especifico de Machel, começamos apresentando citações tiradas de entrevistas jornalísticas nas décadas que se seguiram à morte dele, mostrando que jovens moçambicanos acreditam que ele era autoritário, mas não corrupto. O que muitas vezes permanece não reconhecido é a sua influência duradoura em termos de política social, bem como a forma na qual, por exemplo, a independência do Zimbabué foi alcançada.
Copyright (c) 2024 Dr. David Hedges, Dr. Colin Darch https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
A Participação das Mulheres Africanas nos Movimentos Sociais
This article provides a comprehensive overview of women's contribution to national and anti-colonial movements, highlighting its influence on current legislative representation in Mozambique. Over the past twenty years, there has been a substantial increase in the presence of women in Parliament, reflecting a similar trend across Africa. This rise can be attributed, in part, to institutional factors such as pressures in democratization processes, the voluntary and involuntary implementation of gender quotas, and the dynamics of electoral systems. Additionally, local women's movements, resurging in the early '90s, have been instrumental in shaping and propelling constitutional changes to promote effective political participation of women. This dynamic context reflects the intermediation between national policies and international influences, underscoring the importance of strategic mobilization at the national level to drive significant transformations in women's legislative representation.
Copyright (c) 2024 Sara Vidal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The Hips of the Comrade Chief: from Metaphor to Daily Life in the Chronicles of Sérgio Raimundo
O badalado livro “As ancas do camarada chefe” de Sérgio Raimundo, recoloca o espaço social da crônica, por assim, aparece como convocatória parar ler, escutar, olhar e registrar as inquietações cotidianas para costurá-las com palavras simples, carregadas de significado e da nossa moçambicanidade. Assim, o autor, coloca nas mãos do leitor em forma de convite para inverter a marcha e a ordem; inverter as nossas posições e formas de abordagem, sobretudo à medida em que nos desafia a não ver beleza em milhares de moçambicanos e moçambicanas submetidos/as à necropolítica tal como nos convida a pensar Mbembe (2018).
Copyright (c) 2024 Florentino Lourenço https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Investimentos das empresas brasileiras para os PALOP entre 2003 e 2020
This article aims to analyze the investment trends of Brazilian companies, between 2003 and 2020, together with the five Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) – Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. For this study, it is dedicated to analyzing investments by Brazilian companies in the historical periods of the Lula – Dilma and Temer – Bolsonaro governments in their relations with the PALOP. It is concluded that the large Brazilian investments for the PALOP during the period analyzed were destined for Angola and Mozambique, with Angola being the main beneficiary of these investments. Between 2007 and 2014, there was a scenario of greater investments by these companies in the Angolan and Mozambican economies, with the implementation of large-scale projects.
Copyright (c) 2024 Iabna Infaga, Eduardo Ernesto Filippi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Advances and obstacles in the application of Law n° 10.639/03 in brazilian education
This article is an excerpt from a master's degree research that aims to understand the art and culture of the African Continent and possible approaches to Law N°10.639/03, a law that establishes the mandatory teaching of "Afro-Brazilian History and Culture" in primary and secondary education establishments, official and private. Our aim is to enrich and disseminate decolonial art and culture beyond ethnic-racial relations, in order to give new meaning to elements of African culture in education in Brazil. The research was carried out based on bibliographical surveys in different sources: government documents such as the National Education Council Opinion/CP 003/2004 and data and information from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE); in texts by historians of black-African art such as Kabengele Munanga and Pierre Bourdieu, texts on Law 10639/03 in studies by: Petronilha Gonçalves; Ângela Soligo and Renata Felinto; in addition to analyzes in art exhibition catalogs, on museum and international gallery websites.
Copyright (c) 2024 Evelyn Magalhães de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Reminiscências griots na configuração poético-musical do Nordeste brasileiro
This work consists of a scientific essay prepared from bibliographical research. The guiding question of this study was to identify possible relationships between griots and repentista singers from the Northeast of Brazil. The insufficiency of documents and works in the field of literature that discuss probable links between phenomena demonstrates the difficulties of tracing this historical narrative, revealing numerous epistemic mistakes in its approach, almost always linked to historical-structural comparisons, in an attempt to identify aesthetic similarities and performative between practices. Due to this, this study intends not to point out “historical heredities”, but to highlight points of similarities between the groups, unveiling a part in the flow of the performance formation of the sudden northeastern. The preliminary analysis points to a possible cultural confluence between the manifestations, both due to aesthetic-performative-structural issues, and due to the social functions themselves.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rodolfo Rodrigues https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Abdulai Sila nasceu em Catió, sul da Guiné-Bissau, em 1º de abril de 1958. Após a proclamação da independência de seu país, em 24 de setembro de 1973, participou das brigadas de alfabetização, sob a orientação do pedagogo brasileiro Paulo Freire. Formou-se em Engenharia Eletrotécnica pela Universidade de Dresden (Alemanha), onde viveu por seis anos, e dedicou-se aos estudos das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, tornando-se empresário nessa área. Participou da fundação da revista Tcholona e do Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (Inep) na Guiné-Bissau. Foi membro fundador da Associação dos Escritores da Guiné-Bissau (Aegui), instituição da qual foi presidente no período de 2013 a 2017. Recentemente foi eleito presidente do PEN Guiné-Bissau. É um dos fundadores da primeira editora privada guineense: a Ku Si Mon Editora. Os romances do autor já editados são A última tragédia (1984/1995), Eterna paixão (1994) e Mistida (1997). Em 2016, publicou novo romance, intitulado Memórias soMânticas. Além dessa obras, o autor publicou, ainda, as peças teatrais As orações de Mansata (2007), Dois tiros e uma gargalhada (2013), Kangalutas (2018), Deih (2022) e Trilogia de padjigada (Um dia memorável; A quinta coluna; Abota) (2023). Em 2014, publicou o conto “O reencontro”, na coletânea intitulada Ema vem todos os anos, lançada por ocasião dos 20 anos de existência da Ku Si Mon Editora. Mantém o blog “Mistida” com reflexões de apurado senso crítico. A entrevista agora apresentada buscou dialogar com o Sila a partir do conjunto dos textos teatrais escritos por ele, até o presente momento.
Copyright (c) 2024 Wellington Marçal de Carvalho, Maria Nazareth Soares Fonseca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
A missão: uma etnografia da capoeira como instrumento de cooperação internacional brasileira na África lusófona
This article seeks to problematize, by means of an ethnographic survey, the limits of a Brazilian international cooperation mission conducted in Guinea Bissau, in which capoeira emerges as an instrument of diplomatic action within the context of South-South cooperation. This ethnographic survey focuses on the validation mission for the project entitled Capoeira and educational training for citizenship in Guinea-Bissau, in which various Brazilian institutional players and their Guinean partners participated, under the aegis of the "return of an African cultural practice to its origins”. The article intends to reflect on the meanings attributed to the mission, in order to understand the process of capoeira's belated internationalization on the African continent, the fact that it took place under the tutelage of the Brazilian state in the context of the Bolsonarist government, in which cooperation with the global south was weakened, but also in which one of the forms of political negationism concerning the importance of Afro-Brazilian cultural practices in the Brazilian context is being intensely experienced. Finally, and based on the African model, it attempts to pose hypotheses, clues and questions about the coming processes of internationalization of capoeira.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ricardo Nascimento https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Angolanos and Angolenses in José Luandino Vieira’s Fiction
In this article we aim to analyze how the writer José Luandino Vieira fictionalizes the differentiation between two specific social strata in the panorama of pre-independence Angola: "angolenses" and "angolanos". Although both groups are made up of citizens of Angola, the patriotics adjectives reveal certain historical specificities and, mainly, different ways of thinking about the nation and/or the struggle for independence, as well as denoting approaches or departures from the colonial government. To do so, we will use the analysis of the stories Vavó Xíxi e seu Neto Zeca Santos, present in the volume Luuanda, and Estória de Família (Dona Antónia de Sousa Neto), from the book Lourentinho, Dona Antónia de Sousa Neto & Eu.
Copyright (c) 2024 David Pereira Júnior https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Capulana e o Dia da Mulher Moçambicana: heroísmo, identidade ou emancipação feminina pelo equilíbrio de gênero?
In the process of nation-building, symbols and collective memories stay alive in the country’s history. In Mozambique, April 7 is remembered as the date of engagement of Mozambican women in the struggle for the ideals of the Nation. Currently the capulana is an indispensable accessory in this tribute, and there are cases when the presence of this conditions the celebration of the day of heroes. In this sense we question what it represents Heroism, identity or female emancipation? With the increasing inclusion of women in the different panoramas of political, economic and social life of the country, we need new heroic acts we can expect today from women as a permanence of the legacy of Mozambican heroine. Therein lies the need to reinforce the awareness and energetic exaltation about the engagement of women, their heroism, and reflect on the challenges that Mozambique faces. For, we do not find in the relationship between the capulana and the day of the Mozambican woman, but an act of heroism, and example of feminine emancipation, to be valued as a living part of society.
Copyright (c) 2024 Mario Chico Bonde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Catalog revision and classificatory transits in the collection of the Museu Afro Brasil: the works of Mestre Didi
The present article, written in partnership between the Research and Safeguard Centers of the Museu Afro Brasil, aims to discuss the ongoing catalog revision process of the museum’s collection. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this article seeks to emphasize how this activity should be guided by the dialogue between information representation and artistic-social aspects, especially since it is a collection focused on African and Afro-Brazilian arts - works that historically transited on the margins of conventionalized classifications based on Euro-American collection and exhibition bases. As a thought-provoking example, the article presents the case of the artist Mestre Didi – who has pieces in the collection of the Museu Afro Brasil – and the instituted conflicts about the classification of his works in the museum space.
Copyright (c) 2024 Joyce Farias de Oliveira, Camila Aparecida da Silva, Mariana Fujisawa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Decolonial Bibliography Against Hegemonic Syllabuses: Strategies of Blackness in the Face of Academic Violence
From decades-old works like The Mis-Education of the Negro (Woodson, 1933) to contemporary texts by Black thinkers such as bell hooks and Grada Kilomba, there is repeated evidence that there is no neutrality in science, nor in academic environments. Given the mechanisms that maintain the university as a white, racist, and elitist space, Black female students are required to make extra efforts to obtain a master's degree, as we are forced to remain vigilant against intersectional oppressions. In order to reflect on the presence of non-white bodies in stricto sensu programs, I offer a phenomenological interpretation of racist episodes experienced during my master's studies. If Blackness was never reflected in the official curricula, it was through a decolonial framework and the formation of alliances that I found ways to combat racism that allowed me not only to enter but also to remain in good company.
Copyright (c) 2023 Monique dos Anjos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Beyond stereotypes: an endogenous and critical approach to knowledge about Africa
This article promotes an analysis of the production of knowledge regarding the African reality, emphasizing the essential participation of native intellectuals in constructing this body of knowledge. Through qualitative research supported by bibliographic analysis, the study highlights the need to address methodological and epistemological issues. The primary objective is to advocate for the viability of a local and critical perspective of the African reality, aiming to overcome the cloak of "epistemic racism" that permeates scientific production concerning the continent. It emphasizes the importance of Africans taking on an intellectual leadership role in elucidating the emerging reflections of their own realities, which can lead to an authentic and comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by the continent in various spheres. In this context, the notion of "epistemic vigilance" assumes relevance. Such a stance implies a continuous questioning of accepted perspectives and methodological approaches employed in studies about and for Africa.
Copyright (c) 2023 Mamim Alfissene Baciro Baldé https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Revista África: novos tempos, novo formato
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Frantz Fanon: colonial violence and intellectual resistance from the documentary Concerning Violence
This article analyzes, from the documentary Concerning Violence, the images of colonial violence and the contribution of Frantz Fanon to colonial historical processes and black resistance practices. The documentary focuses on violence and problematizes the process of gender issues between colonizers and colonized people during the wars of liberation and independence. Given its current nature, Fanon's thought aims to question the dialectics of capitalism, colonialism and racism, as well as decolonize minds, and, above all, recognize African identities. As a theoretical reference, the article dialogues, among others, with Frantz Fanon ([1961] 2010), in his reflections on colonial vices in national formation; bell hooks (2019), Leila Gonzalez (1984) and Sueli Carneiro (2011), in their reflections on the problem of the black population, as well as in their ideologies of whitening and its effects on the exposure of the black body, generally being discriminated against by racism.
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