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The African contribute: an interview of Jean-Yves Loude

French ethnologist Jean-Yves Loude returned to the “black city” for a workshop on the figure of Lisbon in literature (you can consult the program here) and insists on counteracting the manipulation of facts that erases the African contribution to the great achievements of the world. In Lisbon in the Black City (2003) the narrator discovered a city full of signs of this African presence and showed us this privilege as Lisbon residents.

Face to face

16.05.2024 | by Marta Lança

To be African in Cape Verde is a Taboo

Cape Verde is not Africa, Cape Verdeans are “special blacks” and the closest to Portugal. Cape Verde is the country of miscegenation, the “proof” of “racial harmony” of Luso-Tropicalism. For many years, this was the dominant narrative. To be or not to be African continues to be a question.

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04.12.2018 | by Joana Gorjão Henriques

"The Alcântara Family" –The Saga of a Black Film Production in Brazil

I began to feel the painful lack of African history in my curriculum and the absence of Afro-Brazilians amongst my college peers. The way blacks were represented (or absent from) the media had bothered me since I was a child. Now, as a film producer, it made me even more uncomfortable. To escape this dilemma, I felt I had to follow my dream of making my own films, but where to begin?