Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

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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. Modern Brazil ...

Just to save others from having to look it up, the Bantu languages include Swahili and Zulu, which were the only two languages that I recognized in the list. Apparently, there are hundreds of mutually ...

THE Bomvana are a Bantu people of the Transkei who, according to their own tradition, are derived from the Amanguema, a people said to have lived in Natal. It is probable that it was somewhere about ...

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 ...