The history of Brazil, Palmares, and Zumbi illustrates how state efforts to whitewash national narratives can backfire.

Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call is part of In The Making, a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of ...

The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe stands as a stark monument of Portuguese colonial ambitions in Africa.

Portuguese-Brazilian merchants ... then began operating their own slave trade, establishing commercial connections on the African coast. Like the other traders, they exchanged cane spirits and ...

Portuguese explorers aimed to spread Catholicism in Africa, colonize both people and ... who would be sold into the transatlantic slave trade. This arrangement provided a model that other European ...

Its small size belies its large place in history, its importance in the transatlantic slave trade, and its continuing relevance in preserving memory and heritage for the African diaspora worldwide.

Countries such as Portugal, Spain, England ... Additionally, internal African slave trade routes facilitated the forced migration and sale of Africans within the continent itself.

Led by Jean-François Papillon, an Africa-born slave ... between the 16th and 19th centuries. The slave trade initially started with the Portuguese who were transporting slaves across the ...