Fire breathers impress the crowd at the closing ceremony of the Ecowas Africa Wrestling Tournament, which brings together the ...
VALDEMAR VARGAS: I'm Mangueira school of samba (laughter). KAHN: He's not only a big fan but also works at the Pretos Novos Institute in the Rio neighborhood known as Little Africa. He gives tours ...
When you’re talking, crying, when it rains, there is percussion,” declared percussionist extraordinaire Mokhtar Samba. The African skinsman would know best. After all, he’s plied his trade ...
a two-headed cowbell originating in West Africa. The Mocidade Independente samba school, one of Rio’s most popular, has 240 ...
Press Release - The Media Foundation for West Africa condemns the arrest and intimidation of Mauritanian human rights ...
Superstar Anitta has won over pop music fans in Brazil and abroad, even more so since she added English and Spanish singing ...
Chéri Samba is a Congolese artist born in 1956 in Kinto M’Vuila, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is known for his paintings that depict life in Africa and the modern world. "I appeal to people’s ...
BdF Entrevista, one of Brasil de Fato's shows, interviewed Russo at the end of January, before the official parades of samba schools in the special group of Rio's Carnival. Russo explained that the ...
Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots. That's the message one of Rio de Janeiro's famous samba ...
One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio.
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