Cidades afro-diaspóricas na luta antirracista

Abstract

This live is part of the Information Records project: dialogues between Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science; coordinated by the Superintendent of the University Library System (SIBI) /UFBA, professor Ivana Borges Lins, in partnership with the Information Science Institute (ICI) /UFBA Architect Vilma Patrícia Silva mediated the live, in which Prof. Dr. Fábio Velame (Professor at FAUFBA) spoke about the Afro-Diasporic process, classified by the professor as continuous, perennial, it did not just happen during the period of slavery, it extends to the present day. The professor spoke about the city of Oyo (Nigeria) and highlighted its diasporic architecture, the cult of Egum. In Brazil, he studied the Terreiro Abolá, on the island of Itaparica, where he highlighted the cult of Ogun. Through research (which had ancestry as the main connecting element) in ethnic neighborhoods, Fábio Velame revealed differences, singularities, particularities existing between Brazil and Africa.