Afro-Brazilians Celebrate Long History of Resistance
Afro-Brazilians Celebrate Long History of Resistance
Published 20 November 2016 (2 hours 49 minutes ago)
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Today, more than 1,000 Brazilian cities celebrated Black Consciousness Day in honour of Anti-colonial Leader, Zumbi dos Palmares, who led a massive anti-slave resistance beginning in 1670, the same year he managed to escape. On Nov. 20, 1695, 25 years into the resistance, Zumbi was captured and beheaded by colonial Portuguese forces after being betrayed by one of his own.
Zumbi, born in 1655 and captured as a slave by the age of six, would help lead Arabs, Indigenous people, Jews and other minorities against Portuguese oppression by the time he was merely 15 years old.
In his young age, the descendant of Imbangala warriors from Angola had managed to become the leader of one of the quilombos, “Brazilian fugitive settlements that were formed by enslaved Africans or Maroons, who escaped from the hands of brutal slave masters,” reports the Atlanta Black Star. In fact, to this day, 126 years after slavery was officially abolished in the country, quilombos remain as a strong symbol of resistance of the large Afro-Brazilian culture.
Zumbi’s murder would spark multiple revolts throughout the country, most notably in 1835.
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Black Music is Resistance on Brazil's Black Consciousness Day
Young Afro-Brazilian singers are part of a movement that seeks to revive a sense of unique
identity in Brazil. | Photo: Brasil de Fato
Published 19 November 2016 (5 hours 52 minutes ago)
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As many in the country prepare to march for Black Consciousness Day on Sunday, some musicians and experts believe music has become both a tool of resistance for Afro-Brazilians against racism and a serious point of Afro-Brazilian pride.
For Andrea Marques, "Music is a way to tell a story, for example when somebody talks about keeping their natural hair, and their habits for confronting racism."
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