At the recent African Union summit in Ethiopia, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff announced that she would write off or restructure $900 million in African debt to her country. BBC News reports that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city’s port. Beneath ...

Today’s Black travelers can look to South America to find connections with African culture. Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, features a multitude of culinary, fine art, ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...

Reverse diaspora : dissonance of memory, voyages of hope and degrees of return -- Historicizing the returnee presence in Gã Mã : challenges and silences -- The social history of Gã Mã : colonialism, ...