Exhibition “Letters from Africa”
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The Brazilian Embassy has the pleasure to invite you to the Exhibition “Letters from Africa” that will be held at Brazil House in Jamestown, Old Accra, starting from the 25th May until 15th June.
This Exhibition tells the story of the freed Brazilians slaves that returned to Africa and created distinctive communities with their own customs and traditions that reflected the Brazil they left behind. They are called Agudas in Benin and Nigeria and Tabon in Ghana. Fifty returnees families were interviewed in the cities of Lagos, Porto Novo, Cotonou, Uidah, Agoué, Lome and Accra. It was thus possible to recreate the biographies of these people who created this diaspora within a diaspora. The publishing of Letters from Africa consists of an important event in the reunion of people whose identities were overlapped and intermeshed.