Between ubuntu and milonga: the Bantu legacy in Brazil
By Stefania Capone. The Ubuntu philosophy is seen as a model of ethical behaviour by…
Tanure Ojaide: African Battle Traditions of Insult
By Tanure Ojaide. The challenges that exist in capoeira and in Brazilian popular culture…
The jackknife game
By Roberto Pereira. Little is known about the use of the jackknife in capoeira of…
From the Ring to the Stage – A movie about Master Artur Emídio de Oliveira
By Roberto Pereira. In the early 1950s, the young Artur Emídio de Oliveira (1930 –…
What do we know about the south of Angola between 8000 BCE and 1400 CE? And how can we know more?
By Marcos Leitão de Almeida. In her post for this blog, historian Mariana Candido rightly…
Frede Abreu
By Maria Luísa Pimenta Neves. Frederico José de Abreu (1946-2013), known in capoeira circles as…
Capoeira politics in Teresina, Piauí: lineages, federations and political parties
By Celso de Brito. Encounters and mismatches Capoeira from Teresina emerged in the 1970s and…
Sailors, Moleques and “Heroes”: Capoeira in Maranhão in the First Republic
By Roberto Pereira. When the gunboat Lamego, of the Brazilian Navy, left São Luís, on…
In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s
By Luiz Augusto Pinheiro Leal and Fabio Araújo Fernandes. The history of capoeira has for…
The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande
By Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos and Gabriel da Silva Vidal Cid. Background The history of…